Stop Calling It a ‘Voting Rights’ BillProposed federal legislation doesn’t protect democracy. It protects Democrats.
By Adam Mill
January 9, 2022
One-party rule and the destruction of an effective opposition might seem like a counterintuitive goal for “democracy journalists” pushing the “voting rights” legislation. But democracy journalists have been refreshingly candid in their goal to destroy competitive opposition in order to “save democracy.” Don’t believe me? Read below how these self-appointed heroes of democracy explain that nullifying their political opponents will preserve democracy from election results that contradict their political views.
This campaign has gone on for a long time in one form or another. But the New Republic offered this opinion piece early in the 2020 election season, “End the GOP—In order to save our democracy, we must not merely defeat the Republican Party.” Osita Nwanevu wrote:
"We cannot afford to wait the GOP out; its power is not a problem to be worked around. The only way to take on the problems posed by the Republican Party is to take on the Republican Party itself. The forces of demographic change and structural reforms must be joined with direct action. . . . We must wrest that choice back and set the country forward. We must end the GOP."
In December, the New York Times treated us to an opinion column disguised as a news story headlined, “Voting Rights and the Battle Over Elections: What To Know.” In it the author pooh-poohed Republican efforts to improve election integrity writing, “Republicans have often sought to limit absentee-ballot drop boxes by claiming without evidence that they are susceptible to fraud.” Without evidence? The author failed to acknowledge that Project Veritas filed a defamation lawsuit against the Times after the Times falsely accused Project Veritas of faking the video footage of an operative bragging about stealing and forging absentee ballots.
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After baselessly speculating that legitimate voters are prevented from voting because of voter ID laws, the Times story then lets slip what this is all really about. “The stakes are enormous: In battleground states like Georgia and Arizona, where the 2020 presidential margins were less than 13,000 votes, even a slight curtailment of turnout could tilt the outcome.”
This is about engineering Democratic victories. Everyone knows that.
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The legislation pending in Congress has little or nothing to do with “voting rights.” It’s all about facilitating a preferred election outcome. “Voting rights,” legislation doesn’t protect democracy; it protects Democrats. The Democrats selling the plan expressly equate permanently defeating Republicans with “saving” democracy. This is the outcome achieved in China that, no joke, argues that its one-party state is closer to a true democracy than the American two-party system. The Peoples’ Democratic Republic of North Korea has also “saved” its democracy from opposition parties.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/09/stop-calling-it-a-voting-rights-bill/
