Suppressing the Vote

 IT IS WORTH REPEATING that Republican legislation sweeping across red state America reducing access to voting, is not motivated by any urgent necessity nor intention of eliminating voter fraud, which does not exist.  It is a solution in search of a problem. The true intent, everyone knows, is to decrease minority, Democratic voter turnout. Nor is Republican resistance to  resistance to federal legislation  to counteract this voter suppression by expanding and make voting easier based on an idealistic crusade to protect the right of states to control their own elections. The resistance is intended to prevent any federal antidote to  voter suppression. the state's right" argument, if it sounds familiar is: It has been used to justify the Confederacy, the true reason for the existence of the Confederacy to preserve the institution of slavery. The white conservative Christian Republican party wishes to make the American electorate as white conservative Christian as possible, to win elections, and remake America in its conservative image. This objective is of course, unspoken, but very real. The most cursory glance at the make up of the Republican party makes its white Christian conservative nature glaringly obvious.  All this voter suppression legislation is being enacted in the same states which are attacking transgender people with new laws, and enacting other far right wing legislation. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell asserted that the proposed legislation, supported by al Democrats and opposed by all Republicans, is intended to win elections for Democrats, which proves that McConnell is fully aware of the true motive for voter suppression. The federal legislation would mandate a certain minimum number of early voting days, make national election day a federal holiday, and limit opportunity for gerrymandering, in which the prevailing political party redraws congressional districts every two years so as to maximize its opportunity of electing congresspersons. there is no reasonable reason anyone could possibly be opposed to this. the Republican party, faced with its minority in which registered Democratic voters far outnumber registered Republicans nationwide, cannot win future elections in which the voter turnout is high. their only recourse is to reduce voter turnout, and to increase the likelihood that the voters who stay home are those who are most likely to vote Democratic. The Republican party is the single greatest threat to Democracy confronting the United States.