(#4513) Because of republican voter restrictions in Georgia democrats may well lose a senate seat in 2022

      The Georgia republican party that is currently in power attached itself to the big lie of trump that said there was massive voter fraud. Without showing any examples of that claim the republican controlled state legislature passed a law that essentially makes it harder for people of color to vote. From changing rules governing mail in ballots to eliminating outside drop boxes to denying non election officials from giving water or food to people waiting in long lines. Long lines will be the new normal again as the republicans are cutting back on voting hours. These are but a few of the obstacles that many people of color will have to contend with on top of the already difficult obstacles that were in place before this law.
     Which is why other states in America are following this republican think tank strategy. Make voting harder for people, especially democratic voters, and that gives republicans a better chance at winning. Now in normal societies such outrageous behavior would never be tolerated and these types of republican politicians would be voted out of office and shamed for their attempt to undercut democracy. But not in this current era in America where at least a third of republicans still believe trump is the real president. So what is to be done to stop the voter suppression tactic by republicans in states they control? Well the best defense of democracy would happen through federal legislation.
     But federal legislation would be a mighty lift since the Senate at the moment require a 60 vote threshold, less filibuster reform, to pass voter protection laws. There are not 10 republican senators who would vote to preserve the right to vote for all Americans. Let me say that again. There are not 10 republican senators in their current 50 Senate caucus that would vote to preserve voting rights for all. Again, because republicans know that if all vote the republican party cannot win. So the fact that republicans have as their strategy an agenda to deny votes to win should and must be the last nail in their coffin, as the republican party is not worthy of being alive in our United States American political society.