Republican Thoughts

It appears that Republicans think very differently from everyone else.  “You can win on the basis of your ideas and the programs you put forward, which is what we choose to do,” said Representative John Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland and a leading author of the new voting rights bill. “Or you can try to win by suppressing the vote, drawing unfair districts across the country and using big money to spread disinformation.” According to Mitch McConnell, “In this country, if the people who win elections want to hold onto power, they need to perform well, pass sound policies and earn the support of the voters again,” said Senator McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader. “House Democrats do not get to take their razor-thin majority — which voters just shrunk — and use it to steamroll states and localities to try and prevent themselves from losing even more seats next time.”  But states under conservative/Republican control have succeeded in recent years in imposing new strictures that studies suggest disproportionately affect Black voters and those living in urban areas. Proponents argue that the steps are necessary to combat potential election fraud. But the effort has been turbocharged in some places since Mr. Trump’s loss in November, with states racing to strengthen voter ID laws, to make it harder to vote by mail or vote early, and to limit the role outside groups can play in helping Americans vote. “Standing in line to vote is not voter suppression,” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from the state, said on Wednesday during the debate in Washington. “It’s just part of the voting process. Just like people stand in line to buy groceries at the grocery store.”  But Taylor Greene failed to cie examples where people had to take time from work to but groceries or stand in line to buy groceries.  Like most Republicans Taylor Greene made unsupported claims and failed to back up those claims with any supporting evidence.  Republicans know the policies they stand for will never again attract a majority of voters.  It is only by gerrymandering and making it difficult for minorities to vote do they have chances to win elections.  The alternative universe occupied by Republicans has been allowed to flourish for far too long and it is time to repeal and eliminate the filibuster removing the only remaining weapon Republicans can use to maintain their alternative universe