Posted on 08/05/2021 6:09:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
For the past several months, we’ve seen the left fighting against election integrity reforms in the states. They reject such reforms and are trying to impose a federal takeover of elections to force changes to state laws that would facilitate, whether intentional or not, greater fraud and tampering.
But that’s not the only reason they are fighting.
They are also using this fight as a Trojan horse to get something even bigger: the death of the Senate filibuster. Once the legislative filibuster is gone, the floodgates will open for all their extremist policies — not just the federal takeover of elections, but the Green New Deal, tax hikes, and more — all of which they would be able to pass with just 50 votes if Vice President Kamala Harris casts a tie-breaking vote.
The left is pulling out all the stops to fight common-sense reforms such as requiring voter ID and ensuring campaign operatives can’t intimidate voters who use absentee ballots. From comparing reforms to segregationist Jim Crow laws to calling reformers racists, the left has baselessly accused conservatives of pushing laws that deliberately make it harder for minorities to vote while touting themselves as the new incarnation of the 1960s civil rights movement.
We’ve heard Vice President Harris compare Democrat legislators who fled Texas to avoid voting on election reforms to the Selma civil rights marchers of 1965, without, of course, mentioning that instead of facing fire hoses and police batons, they’re flying chartered jets, staying at nice hotels, and going to elite cocktail parties in Washington. Trying to play up this absurd comparisons to true heroes, the Texas legislators twice broke into spontaneous renditions of the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” in front of TV cameras, except they botched that too, singing “We Will Overcome.”
But the attacks on legitimate election reforms aren’t just happening with Texas. A few months ago, Georgia, Arizona, and several other states were targets. As I stated, these attacks are about more than just opposing election reforms. Here’s how they are a Trojan horse to get rid of the Senate filibuster:
If the left kills the filibuster, it can pass virtually all of its agenda with just 50 Democrat votes. The door would be wide open for passing not only an election takeover but things like the economy-destroying Green New Deal, the repeal of the 2017 tax cuts that saw even the lowest income earners taking home bigger paychecks, “free” taxpayer-funded college tuition, packing the Supreme Court to increase the likelihood that its decisions are pleasing to the party in power, and so much more.
These politicians aren’t fighting for civil rights. They are fighting for their own power, and they are working to convince people they are the good guys while shamelessly hijacking the mantle of the civil rights movement to do it.
If this were to actually happen there would be no reason to respect any authority. Those responsible would pay.
The Democrat dream. Life would be dirty, diseased, short and brutish ... except for themselves, of course.
Unfortunately this article presumes that the Rs will continue to vote lock-step in the way the Ds vote. For a D senator or congress-critter, stepping off the plantation has immediate and sometimes severe consequences. No such repercussions exist for those on the R side, at least none of the severe variety. The current 50-50 split in the senate is an extremely unstable situation with 4-6 R senators that are totally unreliable votes. If only one or two gets pissed off at their party leadership, a situation we have right now BTW, the fillibuster may be history.
Remember this: your senators don’t stand for election often enough for them to remember why they are there. To many in the senate ‘The will of the people’ are just words on a cocktail napkin.
I truly and honestly pray that those “big talkers” on FR and elsewhere who claim that infringement on the 2A is the straw hold to that promise. It’s coming. I predict gun confiscation attempts before 2024.
Make no mistake: This is intentional.
I dun’no...for ME, EVERYTHING hinges on ‘election integrity’!!
Just imagine what the USA would be like without the insane, power-mad Democrats bent on destroying everything good.
Fixed.
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