(#4737) The death of bipartisanship was reaffirmed Wednesday night

     Even now Joe Biden gets it. I know he meant well and even offered some modicum amount of hope to we cynics who have known for decades that bipartisanship was dead. I write this blog under the name of "Man of Hope" so I at times still like to believe that the worst of us isn't the normal. Yet, that modicum of hope was always salted with the reality that it was just that, a hope, not a probability. Well after the votes from Wednesday night on voting rights protection legislation, something that both parties should be at the front of the line to protect, was defeated with no republican senator voting at all for anything proposed, the facts are clear that working together is an illusion not a reality.
     With the emotional loss of voting rights protections the plan now is to scramble everywhere with defining the narrative that republicans can only win when they deny eligible American citizens of the right to vote. If after that fact becomes universally known here in America and we democrats still lose the midterms then the reality will be that America is no longer a democracy. Because if the republican party can knowingly deny the citizens of America the right to vote and they still get a majority of the votes then the idea that enough of us care to want a democracy becomes the illusion. From Wednesday night until November 8th 2022, we will find out one way or the other.
     If somehow we Americans do end up fighting harder for our democracy and overcome the republican traitorous ambitions then the future will look bright for those of us who know that The United States of America is better as a democracy than a white nationalist government. Instead of being the United States of Inequality, we will have found ourselves with a great opportunity to bypass the manchinema and actually do away with the filibuster in the senate then all the correct things that need to be done will get done. Like admitting DC and Puerto Rico into our union as the 51st and 52nd states. Healthcare for all. Immigration reform. Reintroducing voting rights protections. Police reform. Minimum wage increases. The list goes on and on so get motivated and help elect at least 2 more democratic senators while holding the House and all our dreams may come true this coming November.