Re: Glenn V. Fell for Lies About Georgia Voting Law

On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 5:55:48 PM UTC-4, Steve M. Galbraith wrote:
> On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 10:38:06 PM UTC-4, John McAdams wrote: 
> > On 4 Apr 2021 02:16:47 -0000, "Steve M. Galbraith" 
> > <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > 
> > >On Friday, April 2, 2021 at 8:14:24 PM UTC-4, John McAdams wrote: 
> > >> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/30/biden-falsely-claims-new-georgia-law-ends-voting-hours-early/ 
> > >> 
> > >> .John 
> > >> ------------------------------- 
> > >> http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm 
> > > 
> > >The actual bill in its entirety (98 pages) can be read here: 
> > >https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20527915-sb-202-as-passed If you 
> > >view any and every attempt to limit fraud as a potential abuse or as a 
> > >cover to repress voting then I can see how you'd be against this. Add the 
> > >history, a Southern state and all of that "baggage" comes with it. It 
> > >seems obvious that had Republicans/Trump won the state (presidential 
> > >race/senate races) or black Georgians supported the GOP (or were split) 
> > >these probably wouldn't have passed. 
> > Will you admit that Democrats would oppose these laws because they 
> > think the status quo benefits them? 
> > 
> > .John 
> > ------------------------------- 
> > http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
> Right, and they're making a bigger deal out of this in order to gin up 
> support for H.R. 1, the federal election law they want passed. And they 
> want to use that to eliminate the filibuster since the Republicans in the 
> Senate will use a filibuster to derail H.R.1. This isn't just about - or 
> even mostly - the specific Georgia law. It's has larger connections. 
> 
> In any case, the status quo here appears to be on the side of angels, 
> i.e., defending black voting rights. The GOP looks like they wish to 
> disenfranchise black Americans. The appearances - unfairly presented by an 
> inept and corrupt media - look dreadful to the Republicans. Politics ain't 
> beanbag. Humans have been living in tribes for what? 100,000 years? We 
> used to kill one another; now we do more advanced things. But we're still 
> tribal, aren't we? 
> 
> The bill is complicated and easy to demagogue. Which is what Biden is 
> doing (Jim Crow on steroids?).

Elimination of the filibuster is the primary goal of the Democrats because 
if they can accomplish that, it will open the floodgates for legislative 
action that will do irreparable harm to this country. Packing the Supreme 
court, statehood for DC and PR, Medicare for All. Democrats expect to lose 
the House in 2022 and maybe the Senate. They know they have a small window 
of opportunity to ramrod their far left agenda through Congress without a 
single Republican vote but to do that, they need to eliminate the 
filibuster. Fortunately we have Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema on record 
as opposing elimination of the filibuster and Diane Feinstein and Jon 
Tester have also expressed reservations about it. Democrats need all 50 of 
their senators on board to eliminate the filibuster and hopefully they 
aren't going to get it.

The filibuster has been an important legislative tool and it has been used 
by both parties to put the brakes on the most ambitious plans of the 
other. It is needed now more than ever. If Democrats are able to pack the 
court or grant statehood to DC and PR, those cannot be undone no matter 
what the outcome of the coming elections is.