Rigging and Reducing the Vote

THE REPUBLICAN PLAN to take over the United States permanently, legally or otherwise, and to install, permanently, a right wing authoritarian Christian nationalist government, is a multi-faceted enterprise which is being manifested even as we speak out against it. Facet number one is to gerrymander the entire country so as to ensure the permanent ownership and control of the House of Representatives by the Republican party. The great state of Texas has already begun the process, having just yesterday successfully voted in a new redistricting map for the state, which provides Republican majorities is five more counties than before. The Democrats may end up with no more than a half dozen House members from Texas, thanks to the new map, which was explicity drawn for that precise purpose. The Texas Republicans are not motivated to make the United States a stronger,fairer democracy, but rather, to rig it for the conservative cause. Many of them openly acknowledge this corrupt motivation, choosing not to even bother to try to hide it. Others ridiculously claim that the redrawn maps are intended to "more fairly" represent the consrvative community, blah blah. In the great national gerrymandering war which is breaking out, Republcans, due to demographic circumstances, have a big advantage over Democrats. As of now, there are perhaps twenty or twenty five truly competative seats out of four hundred and thirty five. Soon, there may be none. An entire brand of the American government the so called "people's house", rigged, bought, stolen, the voters themselves utterly irrelevant and powerless. The second prong of the Republican attack on democracy is based upon their long standing but utterly false claim that mail in voting, at all levels, anywhere and everywhere, is inherently corrupt, fraudulant, Amazinaly, all the fraud and corruption seems to be within a single political party, not both. For several reasons, a big majority of mail in voters are Democrats. Democrats tend to mail in their votes much more than Republicans. This has been well known for years, and is the only reason why Trump and his fellow Republican mobsters want to criminalize mail in voting. Th elarger project is of course "voter suppression; according to which Republican election workers desperately try to find excuses for purging the voter registration roles with poor, disabled, or colored people, aka, Democrats. In the grand casue of making Amerian great again by making its electorate white and conservative again proceeds, by any means necessary or effective.Legality is merely a minor matter. Computers and voting machiens arealso on teh Republican chopping block, believe it or not. They want all voting to take place in person, on eh day of the election, with fewer voting places, longer lines, fewer people voting, lowr vote totals. The reasoning is that many more Democrat types will be weeded out than good white,Christian conservative Republicans. Again, the reasoning is valid, based on demographics and voter tendencies. If we're not careful, we shall have gone full circle, an be back to where our founding "fathers" wanted us and intended for us to remain; as a nation in which only wealthy land owning white males are allowed to vote.