Being Damned Sure

BE DAMNED SURE that Republican efforts to tighten voting restrictions, to make it harder to vote, has nothing to do with any phony effort to eliminate voter fraud. This fraudulent crusade to keep people from voting would never have happened had Trump not lost the election, then claimed that he won it. The Trump Republican party cares nothing about voting fraud and security, with which there is no discernible domestic problem - but only about winning, at any cost, by making it harder for poor people and minorities, who tend to vote democratic, to vote. In 2016 Trump willingly and happily received help from Russians operatives, and the Republican party remained silent, and even denied it, despite the fact that the FBI and every intelligence gathering agency in the U.S. confirmed Russian interference to help Trump. Trump lost the election by more than three million votes, but won the election. The solution to voter suppression is obvious, other than ending the filibuster and restoring to its original strength the voting rights act of 1965. The solution is education and organized effort, for voters to redouble their commitment to casting their vote, suppression notwithstanding. Concerning the stealing of the 2020 lection from Trump, I am deeply insulted that I have not been personally implicated as an accomplice to the crime. I wish to be given credit for participating in the execution of the perfect crime, and with having left no evidence behind. For the civics edification of Trump supporters, who seem ignorant not only of basic standards of decency and integrity but of fundamental due process as well; one must never accuse anyone of a crime without first presenting evidence that a crime took place. That aside, from the fact that the proper way to handle an election defeat is to congratulate the winner and offer full support, instead of refusing to accept election defeat and falsely claiming election fraud. Trump supporters have revealed that they have no more decency and integrity than he. The Republican party, as Noam Chomsky points out, is the world's most dangerous and harmful organization, leaving the Taliban in the dust. First, it stood idly by as Trump sole an election with foreign assistance, then gladly abetted Trump's "big lie". And be damned sure of this: it is the conservative ""Christian Republicans who, by refusing to accept the obvious reality of human made climate change endanger life on Earth by refusing to contribute to reversing it, and it is the same gangsters who refuse to get vaccinated against Covid 19, thus putting all Americans in great peril. Surveys prove this. Let us assume for the record that Jesus would not approve of ignoring the climate disaster, supporting Trump's dishonest claims of election fraud, or  the willful spread of disease through inaction, or the perpetuation of systemic racism, all through inaction.