Mitch McConnell, Enemy of the Vote

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The Senate Majority Leader mocked a bill expanding ballot access while staying silent on foreign threats to our elections

By JAMIL SMITH JANUARY 31, 2019 1:11PM ET

Suppressing votes is not merely a racist act, nor it is simply the last resort for a party out of ideas. Voter suppression is traitorous.

Intentionally restricting access to the ballot is a violation of the ideals that we have been told are inherently American. The United States government is of, by and for the people. Yet we are barred from the fundamental democratic process by those in power merely because our skin color predicts our political persuasion.

The Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby vs. Holder decision should have had people marching in the streets to restore that landmark civil rights legislation to its full powers — or at least made that a key topic of the subsequent presidential election. We are lucky if outlets use “racially tinged” or other cowardly terminology to reference it. Voter suppression is not an accident, as Chief Justice John Roberts would have us believe, some benign exclusion from the small-d democratic process. It is a form of violence.

Mitch McConnell is okay with this. The Senate Majority Leader, the longest-serving Republican to ever hold that position, all but admitted on the Senate floor Wednesday that having more Americans vote is bad for the Republican Party. H.R. 1, the omnibus package of ethics and civil rights reforms proposed by the newly elected House Democratic majority, was McConnell’s target.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mitch-mcconnell-enemy-of-the-vote-787596/

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1. If McTurtle is the enemy of the vote, then he's also the enemy of the... PEOPLE.

McTurtle and his GOP pawns publicly expose their dislike for the Constitution and the premises for the Rule of Law, the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble, and the very spirit of the nation. And the disgust grows in the nation's heartland, on east and west coasts, and throughout the states. Yet the GOP has a firm grip on the media networks and is at work daily to massage the practical and ideological horror of restricting the right of every citizen to participate in their own government.

McConnell took the risk of exposing his real intent because he knows that the GOP wields tremendous power within the national media networks, and will push aside the outrage at his bigoted, undemocratic policy of voter disenfranchisement. His Republican establishment will minimize and reframe McConnell's own "power grab", and sell it as a noble cause. In other words, they'll lie to the public and tell the nation that NOT VOTING is for their own good.