Die Republikaner wissen, dass sie keine fairen Wahlen gewinnen können

Very astute. What gave it away?

You’ll notice that it’s always only republicans that put forth voter suppressions bills and measures. Republicans know that their policies are absolute dogshit but they count on the uneducated and ignorant to be single-issue voters that they can provide fictional boogeymen to.

*“GOP knows it can’t win a fair election“*

It’s known that for at least the last 40 years.

Republicans only win when voter turnout is low, which is why they’re always introducing bills to suppress the vote and make it harder for non-whites to vote. Republican policies are not in line with reality.

Which doesn’t matter for them, because they know everyone will roll over for a corrupt election

“If your policies are so good why do you need to gerrymander?”

-Talarico (nailed it).

And democrats will just roll over and accept it if they lose. This two party system is bullshit!

Republicans knew exactly what they were doing when they schemed their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

What’s even worse is how Republicans are trying to justify it by intentionally misleading voters about the purpose of the law. It’s not the first time they’ve tried to argue in bad faith that protections for marginalized or disenfranchised groups are discriminatory, or that laws addressing historic inequities are oppressive towards *them.*

Their goal isn’t to prevent gerrymandering of any kind, that much is obvious.

Their goal is to consolidate power by suppressing the vote and disenfranchising large swaths of democratic voters.

Section 2 is a historically significant provision meant to block racial gerrymandering efforts that fracture this voting population and rob them of their agency.

But Republicans would have you believe that the Voting Rights Act is in itself „racist.“

It’s an ass-backwards rationalization that they’ve relied on so often in the past to defend a status quo of systemic inequality. A status quo that has historically worked out in their favor.

They also argue that section 2 is no longer necessary because modern America is „colorblind.“

This argument is quickly dispelled by the fact that Republicans are now rushing to establish new voting maps that will deliberately disenfranchise minorities and put more white Republicans in power.

Republicans try to disguise their voter suppression tactics as a painstaking effort to „protect election integrity,“ but they’re not protecting anything other than their own political interests and electoral advantages.

They have been suppressing the vote for years while taking advantage of voter geography.

The GOP has also frequently targeted election procedures/conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing voting laws, automatic/same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures… Ask yourself WHY!?

Why Republicans are hell bent on making the voting process more challenging and meticulous, especially for citizens located in urban areas and cities, and with no evidence whatsoever that supports the need for these interventions and discriminatory laws.

They have the gall to claim that they’re safeguarding our elections from a growing list of foreign and domestic threats while making every effort to do the opposite, and while they themselves are the REAL threat to „election integrity.“

This whole campaign really started escalating post Jan 6th when they realized they could exploit MAGA’s unwitting belief in Trump’s „big lie“ to sow distrust in our elections.

Their strategy has been to amplify Trump’s lies about „rigged“ elections while also relying on all of the conspiracy theories, baseless allegations, and misinformation that has emerged in recent years to deceive the public and advocate for a nation-wide campaign of voter suppression.

Republicans are also abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the unilateral say on how maps are drawn—no referendum necessary.

In Texas, Republican legislators took it upon themselves to redraw maps mid-census, with no input from voters.

In California, the decision was ultimately left up to a vote.

This perfectly illustrates the difference between authoritarianism and democracy.

And in recent years especially, Republicans have been taking advantage of the naivety and distrust of their voters to empower themselves with more legal authority to challenge election results and obtain more control over the electoral process.

To make matters worse, Trump has been mobilizing trigger happy ICE thugs to US cities around the country where he likely plans to use this paramilitary force to intimidate voters in upcoming elections.

Then there’s Trump’s threats to „nationalize“ US elections, just another example showing the lengths that Trump and Republicans will go to erode democracy as they try to consolidate power.

So much for „states rights…“ An argument almost always posited in bad faith by conservatives who seem to believe that federal overreach is only acceptable when THEY do it.

Other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans have either deliberately ignored or have failed to properly address.

Like foreign election meddling and the awful Citizens United ruling.

Like campaign finance corruption and the political power and influence of billionaires.

If MAGA is truly intent on „protecting election integrity,“ they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans continue to exploit to their advantage instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories.

Sadly, they’ve managed quite effectively to distract their voters from these ongoing efforts to erode the Democratic process by instead engaging them with culture wars and scapegoating immigrants, minorites and marginalized groups who they insist you blame for all of our nation’s problems, like non-existent, widespread voter fraud.

Yes, as it turns out, Republicans have always been the *real* threat to election security.

„If Conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will abandon democracy.“

-David Frum (I think). Former speechwriter for one of the Bush presidents

>Trump and MAGA followers know they can’t win a fair election because we Americans don’t want his Iran war, like we didn’t want him to tear down the East Wing, like we don’t want his name on the Kennedy Center and don’t want his ballroom, gold statues, arches and gilding of the White House.

>He can’t win a fair election because our prices are sky high, and he just said he doesn’t care about the financial suffering of Americans: His agenda is all that matters, and the next gold statue of him, and his name on more of our nation’s monuments.

Yep.

I assume most young Reddit readers don’t know that Dem’s have been stealing elections at least back to JFK’s win. I am a big admirer of JFK but the consensus has been that the election was stolen in Chicago. From the early days of LBJ’s political career, Dems had 2 operations going. Illegal immigration and vote stealing. As quasi-commies, they felt it was Marxist morality.

We’re already in back to the future 2 timeline, PLEASE VOTE!so we don’t end up in the Hunger Games timeline

They know. We know. The trick is being prepared to act when they cheat, and not just go „oh well that’s how it goes. GOP gets to cheat and there’s nothing we can do about it.“

Even if did know it could so what? They cheat constantly

Dumpf is going to claim their fake audits of ballots found Chinese interference in the 2020 election, and use that as a pretext to „federalize“ the mid- terms, even though nothing would give him the authority to do such a thing.

But that’s what they’re going to do, and the democrats sure as hell better have a good plan in place to thwart that.