(#4735) One hope left for our upcoming elections...

      I hate to say it but we are going to have to count on the state and federal judiciary to get us out of this mess that republicans, plus manchin and sinema, have made for our democracy. It really is more than a mess since it will be the end of our democracy short of a civil war or declaration of martial law. All it would take to avoid this is for 10 republicans to vote with democrats to pass a voting rights protection bill or for manchin and sinema to agree with the rest of their senate democratic colleagues and do a carve out of the senate discriminatory rule, the filibuster.
     I get why the manchin and sinema do not want to end the racist filibuster rule in order to protect minority rights but there will be no effective minority to protect if we do not protect voting rights. The logic is clear, by protecting the filibuster from a carve out rule the two democratic senators, manchin and sinema are allowing democracy to die. There really is no analogous simile that I can think of except maybe the old cutting off your face to spite your nose axiom. To save the filibuster from a carve out, which by the way keeps the filibuster intact for everything it currently covers, except now not for voting rights protections, will effectively end our democracy and the need for a filibuster rule to begin with.
     So it will be down to the courts to keep us from a self induced imploding. The republican party is being protected by the media so they are not held to account for their diabolical strategy to usurp power and make the many of us beholden to them and their white wealthy donors. Somehow the courts will have to muster the strength to call out these voter suppression laws with authority or the end result will be to leave nothing left for democrats to do but look at extreme constitutional protections that will attempt to combat the republican assault on our democracy. Either that or we go down as sheep who would not fight for the better and best that our fore parents bled and died for.