Uprising For Justice

 MY INTEREST in politics and elections started early, in 1964, when  Goldwater ran against LBJ. I was nine. JFK's assassination got me interested, for all the wrong reasons. I love elections, and I love voting. I inherited this from my attorney father, who said he loved voting so much he was willing to vote on anything. I agree. that's why I find Donald Trump's big lie so repugnant, and its embrace by tens of millions of Americans even more so. every political scientist will tell you that a democracy exists only with  free and fair elections, and that the only thing making them fair and free is a willing of the public to maintain faith in their fairness and freedom,  unless confronted with extraordinary, compelling evidence that they are not. No such evidence has even been presented nor exists that last November's election was anything other than honest, and that comes from the FBI from every state election board, and from very city, town, and precinct in America, where tens of thousands of Republican poll workers found nothing wrong. Pretty convincing, wouldn't you say? Their dishonest discredited clamor dying down for want of veracity, trump supporter and the Republican party are now resorting to voter suppression, disguised as fraud prevention. More treachery, more dishonesty. Only Georgia has passed such heinous legislation so far, but many other right states are on their way, and what may save us is that much of America, and in particular corporate America, which is more important, is rising up in justifiably righteous indignation. A Yale professor organized a zoom conference call which included a who's who among the powerful corporate elite. Travel, transportation, retail, industry; you name it, corporate America is on board with resisting voter constriction by making it harder to vote, the calculation evidently being that most Americans prefer expansive rather than restrictive voting. Its no secret that new restrictive voter laws, requiring voters to jump through more hoops to cast a ballot, will decrease minority turnout, not white conservative Republican turnout. Whether or not this should be the case, whether or not everybody should be equally able to navigate obstacles to voting is not the issue, the issue is the reality that voter suppression suppresses Democrats far more than Republicans. With Georgia beginning to suffer the economic sting of corporate boycotting, you can bet your bottom dollar that the rest of the states will think twice, at least. before following suit.