Securing Voting Rights

NOTHING COULD BE MORE REASONABLE and beneficial for the American political system than for the federal government to enact a legislative package of fundamental voting rights for the American people. It makes so much sense that one can scarcely imagine anyone other then oligarchical Republicans to support it - and that is exactly the situation. It seems evident that the Grand Old Party wants only conservative white Christians to cast ballots. In state after Republican controlled state, Republicans, angry that African-Americans enabled the election of Joe Biden, are imposing voting restrictions intended to reduce the voter turnout of colored people, a return to Jim Crow, as Biden accurately put it. More egregiously still, their racist intent they digsuise as a crusde to eliminate voter fraud, which, as we and they well know, is virtually nonexistant in the United States. The federal gvoernment already mandtets by law that everyone over the age of eighteen is entitled to vote, that woman be allowed to vote, and that poll taxes are illegal; federal voting standards have been in place for generations and expanding them would constitutie no aggresive, sudden take over by the federal government of "state's rights", as conservatives falsely claim. Is it not a primary function of the federal government to protect and expand democracy? And yet Republicans, steadfastly engaged in their racist war against minority political power, seem intent on making America great again for white Christian conservatives, as Congressional Republicans every attempt by Democrats to enact reasonable federal voting rights standards. What should have bipartisan consensus is instead part of the polizarized political landscape, as Senator Mitch McConnell, in his typical twisted and dishonest manner, accuses the Democrats of trying to subvert state power. This bogus "state's rights" argument is remindful of confederate arguments for secession; that they were defeing state's rights, as indeed they were, the right of their states to enslave human beings. This false malignant argument proves the true racist intent of voter suppression by Republican sponsored legislation, just as the confederacy revealed its true intent in its "state's rights" nonsense. Black voters in Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, many of whom voted by mail and whose votes were counted last, handed the presidency to Joe Biden, fair and square. It was the manner of Biden's victory which enraged Trump Republicans, and the "stolen election voter fraud" claims a mere cover story to give the false impression of concern for fairness. The big lie told by Trump was the genesis of the false voter fraud stolen election claims, and a shameful sham substitute for the real problem; pervasive racism among conservative voters. Hence, the Republican born again embace of Jim Crow. The most intelligent intellectual academician in America, Noam Chomksy, calls the Republican party the most dangerous and harmful organization in human history. He refers mainly to the Republican majority's denial of human made climate change for political expediency, and their constant refusal to fully asknowlege the severity of the Covid 10 epidemic and to take urgently needed action to ameliorate it. The conservative assault on American Democracy currently underway surely ranks high on the long list of evil malign designs being promulagated by the Republican party.