Thirsting For Justice

 ITS A HOT HUMID DAY in the Peach State. You've been standing in line for at least two hours or more in the glaring sun, without food, water, or respite. Your legs are numb, and you are parched. The line seems to not be moving at all. Its a long ballot. Your light headedness does not damper your resolve. Suddenly yo see a friend approaching, smiling, with a bottle of cold Evian in her outstretched hand.Just as she greets you and offers you a lifesaving sip a cop approaches her from behind, cuffs her, reads her her rights, and escorts her to his patrol car, where he places his hand on top of her head and guides her down into the back seat. she will now be accused of a crime, and will experience the wrath of the judicial system, fines, fees, lawyers and all. She has committed a crime of compassion. It is now illegal in Georgia, and will likely soon be so in many other conservative states, to prevent dehydration while waiting to vote.The ostensible reason, say conservatives, who watched in horror as Donald Trump lost the state and the presidency and Georgia lost two Republican Senators and gained two Democratic Senators and the Democrats took control of congress, is to stamp out rampant election fraud and electioneering. The state which opposed letting blacks vote by charging them to do it and forcing them to read esoteric texts in "literacy tests" is rapt in a fit of electoral integrity. A bottle of cold water, after all, on a day day in the deep south, could potentially turn a good christian Republican into a raving atheist Democratic socialist. thirst is a powerful force, and we must not be tempted, its better to suffer in silence. Republicans nationwide are understandably upset about losing both the presidency and Congress, so much so that they invent the fantasy that the election was stolen, and not only make it harder to vote, but much more uncomfortable as well. Their claim that they are eliminating fraud and making voting more efficient is belied by the removal of vote drop boxes and the addition of frivolous administrative obstacles to mail in voting, which Democrats use extensively. Sore loser Trump supporters know full well that the election wasn't stolen and that voter fraud is vanishingly rare in the United States.They may be stupid and delusional, but even they are not sufficiently stupid and delusional to actually believe such nonsense. but they are sufficiently dishonest, as proven by their support of the mother of all liars, Trump himself. The Republican definition of voter fraud is the loss of an election by a Republican candidate. The fact that this whole sorry episode of voter suppression is predicated upon the single big lie of a single big liar, Trump himself, invalidates the entire voter suppression movement, and exposes it for the fraudulent scam that it is, with its pretext of election integrity enhancement. Trump invented the lie before the election was over, and a big lie told often enough becomes believed. But like any structure built upon a false foundation, this one cannot and will not stand long.