03-26-2021, 07:17 AM
(03-25-2021, 11:20 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-22-2021, 04:20 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: So The Trump Republicans want to make it illegal to bring some water to grandma as she waits to vote in a line that THEY made so long!
What's up with the Democrats and their cheesy comedians these days? Gee, you'd think Biden won by 42,000,000 votes. I know that it's hard for a nimble minded comedian to comprehend that McConnell represents the interests of 76 million Americans who have no interest in him, his career or the future of his show or the network that he's associated with today either.
The ban on offering food or water to people in line to vote (so long as the activity is non-partisan) could be detrimental to diabetics. A Boy Scout or Girl Scout troop would be adequately non-partisan. So might a church group. Electioneering within range of the polling place is banned in many states.
Mitch McConnell is one of two Senators representing Kentucky in the US Senate. He does not represent people outside of Kentucky.
...As if it matters for precision, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by 7.969,533 popular votes... but the States elect the President, and Joe Biden won the Electoral College 306-232, which is what counts. Maybe you don't get the point. Maybe you'd like to arrange things so that people must vote as their employers dictate. Maybe you'd like to see your favored President decide that he can repudiate any statewide election that he dislikes.
Of course that is consistent with dictatorship. Maybe you would like that so that your side never loses.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.