Ever since the protofascist Roberts' Supreme Court ruled in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which then allowed for southern states to make changes to their election laws without first getting the wanted changes approved federally, these said states have been working feverishly to suppress the votes of people of color.
It has been clear ever since the Supreme Court ruling that new voting rights legislation is needed from Congress. This is made all the more urgent as the GQP continues to issue more voter suppression laws in these very states and furthers what is now a rolling soft coup that unless challenged and reversed will allow for the successful thwarting of the vote and the actual theft of the election which Trump and his MAGAt minions desperately attempted to do in 2020-21.
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in The Nation during the organizing and activism pushing for the Voting Rights legislation that “[t]here are men in the Senate who now plan to perpetuate the injustices Bull Connor so ignobly defended. His weapons were the high-pressure hose, the club and the snarling dog; theirs is the filibuster. If America is as revolted by them as it was by Bull Connor, we shall emerge with a victory. It is not too much to ask, 101[161] years after the Emancipation, that Senators who must meet the challenge of filibuster do so in the spirit of the heroes of Birmingham.”
That what Martin Luther King Jr. said and wrote of the Voting Rights legislation and the congress people who were opposing it is now as applicable as it was then absolutely refutes Roberts’ ludicrous ruling that the country has changed and that the Voting Rights Act can be gutted.
In the 60s it was congress people such as Bull Connor using the Jim Crow filibuster to thwart civil rights legislation, now it’s the entire GQP and the two republicans in drag Manchin and Sinema. These two treacherous and corrupt protofascists are now endorsing the policies of white Christian supremacy and fascism. As Martin Luther King Jr. observed, “[v]oting is the foundation stone for political action,” and for a functioning democracy. That the entire GQP and two democrats in name only are endorsing the evisceration of democracy it’s very unfortunately not hyperbole to diagnose these policies and politicians as neofascist.
The Jim Crow filibuster must be abolished, Manchin and Sinema need to be primaried out of Congress, the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act must be voted on and passed into law as soon as possible otherwise the GQP voter suppression laws will make it easier for them to take away the Democrat majority in Congress and to speed ever faster towards the slide into abject fascism.
