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It was a huge blow to his overblown ego and to his plans to
deadstart any of now President Joe Biden’s policy agenda.
Not to worry. The GOP, now totally abandoning any
pretense that they have a “big” tent approach to growing
their party, is in full war paint and they want to
decapitate minority voters in many of the swing states that
swung to Joe Biden.
The GOP malcontents have been in overdrive in scheming
and devising ways by which they can get political power back
in the 2024 elections.
According to many news reports, the GOP is in constant churn
mode of turning out legislation that will, in their opinion,
stop any political impetus that the last election realized
in record turnouts of college students, independents, black
and Latino voters.
Especially so in Georgia where that hapless party is
introducing dozens of voter related bills that will give
what they believe to be “an edge up” in winning future
congressional races.
Strikingly, one of those bills is to end the popular
“Souls To The Polls” which allowed church goers to early
vote on Sundays, right after church services let out in
Georgia.
The GOP has been sniffing the political and racial air
in both Georgia and around the country and they realize,
albeit belatedly, that people of color are gaining in
numbers and which normally means, new Democratic voters.
Rather than enact favorable policies, such as
increasing the minimum wage and the Child Care Credit and
providing working mothers with tax breaks for daycare and
time off from work, the GOP, cynical as they are, are saying
“no” to such people-affirming perks.
When you understand that GOP voters normally are
steadfast about voting and registering to vote and that in a
close contest, the GOP can win because of favorable
gerrymandering that occurred in Republican-controlled states
houses, it is imperative for them to stop the tide of black
voters going to the polls.
Much credit must be given to the heroine, Stacey
Abrams, for her dedication and perseverance in getting out
the vote in Georgia and convincing voters in that normally
red Republican state that if they vote and vote en masse,
they can do wonders.
And it happened. Both Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael
Warnock won their elections against Trump-backed candidates.
The GOP saw that as a harbinger of things to come so
they are firmly invested in any means or political
shenanigans that will discourage minority voters from taking
the time and effort to either register to vote or to vote
when the polls open.
Stripped of any veneer that what they are doing is for
the best interests of its citizenry, the GOP in Georgia and
other “swing states” are saying, “Yeah, we don’t want black
folks and other minority groups taking our place in the
House or the Senate or the governor’s chair!”
Their racist antics are thinly clothed in political
mush, but it will give birth to dozens of court challenges
by groups who see this for what it is, a desperate power
play by desperate politicos who want to hang on for dear
life to their jobs and power perks.
Don’t kid yourself. The currently constituted GOP is
not your friend.
Rick Perry, the former Energy Secretary for President Trump,
said that the people in Texas would rather freeze longer
than they must in order to avoid any federal government
intervention or assistance!
Imagine those words coming from someone who is supposed to
be a public servant of the people.
That same GOP is fighting tool and nail Joe Biden’s
COVID-19 relief package and especially the provision about
raising the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour to that of $15.00
per hour.
Now, if much of the country has already indicated that
they are in favor of such a pay raise (no raise since 2009),
why is it that the tone-deaf GOP cannot read the handwriting
on the wall?
It is because any victory that Joe Biden wins with
the American public means that the GOP is diminished in its
ability to provide favorable legislation and win over
converts to its so called, “Big Tent.”
Matter of fact, some GOP bumpkins have gone so far as
to question the authenticity of the January 6 riot at the
Capitol because the crowd was purportedly overwhelmingly
Republican!
So, going forward in a Joe Biden administration, you
will read about constant deadlocks in which obstructionist
GOP members will attempt a scorched earth policy to derail
anything that places the Democrats in a favorable light.
The best antidote to this shameful behavior? Vote
early and vote often!
Contact Lafe Tolliver at
tolliver@juno.com
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