Unfortunately, there is no ability to have a "concrete" plan to pass Federal voting rights at this time with Democrats and Republicans each having 50 Senators, and two Democrats and all 50 Republicans are holding up the voting rights bill as well as refusing to modify the filibuster rules.
Each state where Republicans hold minority rule a…
Unfortunately, there is no ability to have a "concrete" plan to pass Federal voting rights at this time with Democrats and Republicans each having 50 Senators, and two Democrats and all 50 Republicans are holding up the voting rights bill as well as refusing to modify the filibuster rules.
Each state where Republicans hold minority rule and pass laws to restrict voting, persecute, intimidate and replace nonpartisan election officials with Republican officials, and set their Republican controlled legislatures up to to overturn elections is a state where the citizens of those states should make all hell break loose against Republican lawmakers. There is no excuse for Americans not to apply themselves at the local level.
Yes we should apply pressure at the Federal level. But Republicans have been winning against democracy at the state and local level with their political messaging, with their permission to run down and kill blacks, with their laws and execution of laws, with their blind eyes to injustice and to their support of America's caste system that starts in each community, spreads through their states until it reaches our President, Congress and US Supreme Court.
True, no concrete plan is in evidence, but surely there is something Dems can do to pass these vital laws. What would LBJ have done? As the guys on Pod Save America said, The Democrats should get caught trying.
Unfortunately, there is no ability to have a "concrete" plan to pass Federal voting rights at this time with Democrats and Republicans each having 50 Senators, and two Democrats and all 50 Republicans are holding up the voting rights bill as well as refusing to modify the filibuster rules.
Each state where Republicans hold minority rule and pass laws to restrict voting, persecute, intimidate and replace nonpartisan election officials with Republican officials, and set their Republican controlled legislatures up to to overturn elections is a state where the citizens of those states should make all hell break loose against Republican lawmakers. There is no excuse for Americans not to apply themselves at the local level.
Yes we should apply pressure at the Federal level. But Republicans have been winning against democracy at the state and local level with their political messaging, with their permission to run down and kill blacks, with their laws and execution of laws, with their blind eyes to injustice and to their support of America's caste system that starts in each community, spreads through their states until it reaches our President, Congress and US Supreme Court.
True, no concrete plan is in evidence, but surely there is something Dems can do to pass these vital laws. What would LBJ have done? As the guys on Pod Save America said, The Democrats should get caught trying.