Massive voter turnout isn't going to mean diddlysquat in states that pass laws saying they can throw out any votes they don't like. In swing states, massive voter turnout isn't going to mean anything when those states are striping their Secretaries of State of their power to certify elections. Now, don't get me wrong, if those things happen, there will be an uprising in this country that may make the Civil War look like a neighborhood skirmish over a barking dog. Even if the Democrats in the Senate don't seem to understand the urgency of this situation, Democrats among the people in this country are keenly aware, and action will be taken if our voting rights are overturned. There are times I wish Lincoln would have just let the south go out on their own, and I think there are people in the south who might feel the same about us. Maybe our dream of a more perfect union has been hijacked by the constant drumbeat that we were already perfect. I've heard that my whole life. America is the greatest country on Earth. Ha! Once anything has reached "perfection" what's the use of trying anymore. Now, this country is set up perfectly for white males, rich white ones, in particular, and the rest of us have just accepted that, grudgingly, but, with the thought, well that's just the way it is and there's nothing we can do about it. Those white males have been just fine with that set up. The problem now is, the rest of us aren't so thrilled with this arrangement anymore, and the white guys are pissed and scared, which makes them pathetic and desperate, which isn't good for any of us, considering how much power they still hold. Anyway, I have no answers, but, a whole lot of worry and fear that our country is going down the toilet, the insurrectionists will get away, unscathed, and President Biden will be our last freely elected President. May the force be with us.
America is the greatest nation on earth, Karen. Hands down. You don't see people leaving America to find their fortune and freedom in some other country.
We are a long way from perfect, but the constitution laid down the path so we could seek 'a more perfect union.' "...in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
all future generations of people -~- the descendants of a person. The closer we come to perfection, the better we see that we are not there yet. The constitution has not failed us. We have failed to protect it from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is the domestic element that gives us the most trouble. Those members of congress who have placed their own wants above the need of the people have violated their oath, shunned their sworn duties, and offered their services to the highest bidder, on our dime. Yet we see fit to return them to office year after year. Who is working for whom?
The complacency you allude to is with the white community. Especially straight males. We have the privilege of having the same skin color as those who write the laws meant to keep white males at the helm. Only the females and the poorest of our race have suffered any inequality.
You do have the answer and the tool needed to fix the situation. Vote. It is crucial that we somehow developed the same intense desire for equality that we see in black and other minorities. If we don't, then we will have the knee of the bigots on our necks.
Our rights are already guaranteed by the constitution. The problem we have now is only the need to get the GOP bigots out of the control of the government. Those laws they are writing now to disenfranchise Black, brown, LGBTQ+, white, and non-Christians are no doubt unconstitutional and will not stand. Can we trust the Supreme Court?
"Rights are not bestowed, not even by kings. Rights are asserted, not given. Rights come from human nature, not divine nature. Most of all, natural law is a product of “liberal and expanded thought,” not of divine revelation."
Seidel, Andrew L. The Founding Myth (p. 77). Sterling.
"It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves; and in this view of the case, pardoning the vanity of the thing, aristocracy is a subject of laughter. This self-soothing vanity is encouraged by another idea not less selfish, which is that the opposers conceive they are playing a safe game, in which there is a chance to gain and none to lose; that at any rate the doctrine of equality includes them, and that if they cannot get more rights than those whom they oppose and would exclude they shall not have less.
Massive voter turnout isn't going to mean diddlysquat in states that pass laws saying they can throw out any votes they don't like. In swing states, massive voter turnout isn't going to mean anything when those states are striping their Secretaries of State of their power to certify elections. Now, don't get me wrong, if those things happen, there will be an uprising in this country that may make the Civil War look like a neighborhood skirmish over a barking dog. Even if the Democrats in the Senate don't seem to understand the urgency of this situation, Democrats among the people in this country are keenly aware, and action will be taken if our voting rights are overturned. There are times I wish Lincoln would have just let the south go out on their own, and I think there are people in the south who might feel the same about us. Maybe our dream of a more perfect union has been hijacked by the constant drumbeat that we were already perfect. I've heard that my whole life. America is the greatest country on Earth. Ha! Once anything has reached "perfection" what's the use of trying anymore. Now, this country is set up perfectly for white males, rich white ones, in particular, and the rest of us have just accepted that, grudgingly, but, with the thought, well that's just the way it is and there's nothing we can do about it. Those white males have been just fine with that set up. The problem now is, the rest of us aren't so thrilled with this arrangement anymore, and the white guys are pissed and scared, which makes them pathetic and desperate, which isn't good for any of us, considering how much power they still hold. Anyway, I have no answers, but, a whole lot of worry and fear that our country is going down the toilet, the insurrectionists will get away, unscathed, and President Biden will be our last freely elected President. May the force be with us.
America is the greatest nation on earth, Karen. Hands down. You don't see people leaving America to find their fortune and freedom in some other country.
We are a long way from perfect, but the constitution laid down the path so we could seek 'a more perfect union.' "...in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
all future generations of people -~- the descendants of a person. The closer we come to perfection, the better we see that we are not there yet. The constitution has not failed us. We have failed to protect it from all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is the domestic element that gives us the most trouble. Those members of congress who have placed their own wants above the need of the people have violated their oath, shunned their sworn duties, and offered their services to the highest bidder, on our dime. Yet we see fit to return them to office year after year. Who is working for whom?
The complacency you allude to is with the white community. Especially straight males. We have the privilege of having the same skin color as those who write the laws meant to keep white males at the helm. Only the females and the poorest of our race have suffered any inequality.
You do have the answer and the tool needed to fix the situation. Vote. It is crucial that we somehow developed the same intense desire for equality that we see in black and other minorities. If we don't, then we will have the knee of the bigots on our necks.
Our rights are already guaranteed by the constitution. The problem we have now is only the need to get the GOP bigots out of the control of the government. Those laws they are writing now to disenfranchise Black, brown, LGBTQ+, white, and non-Christians are no doubt unconstitutional and will not stand. Can we trust the Supreme Court?
"Rights are not bestowed, not even by kings. Rights are asserted, not given. Rights come from human nature, not divine nature. Most of all, natural law is a product of “liberal and expanded thought,” not of divine revelation."
Seidel, Andrew L. The Founding Myth (p. 77). Sterling.
"It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves; and in this view of the case, pardoning the vanity of the thing, aristocracy is a subject of laughter. This self-soothing vanity is encouraged by another idea not less selfish, which is that the opposers conceive they are playing a safe game, in which there is a chance to gain and none to lose; that at any rate the doctrine of equality includes them, and that if they cannot get more rights than those whom they oppose and would exclude they shall not have less.
Thomas Paine
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s40.html
Chapter 13 | Document 40
Keep up the optimism. The majority still believe in democracy.
From your pen to God's ears!