Republicans know that when more people vote, Republicans lose.
Republicans know that, as a whole, WE THE PEOPLE do not want them.
With gerrymandered congressional and legislative districts and an Electoral College and senate weighted in favor of small, rural, conservative populations, they count on a small but sure minority that always votes and, in the districts of THEIR voters there are NOT the long lines and voter purges.
Long lines = making it more inconvenient to vote in targeted communities = voter suppression.
But this year, voters are fighting back. There is a backlash. The suppression is fueling a determination in many communities not to be suppressed. Voter turnout is in record-setting droves and Republicans are getting worried that a Big Blue Wave is about to crash.
Young people are voting to end the destruction and devastation of the climate and environment they will live their futures in.
African Americans and Latinos want to elect leaders who will make sure that their lives do matter.
Women want to elect those who will protect their right to control their own bodies and not appoint Supreme Court justices who believe that women should be submissive “handmaids” to their husbands and let their husbands dictate their votes and their lives.
Seniors (who voted bigly for Trump in 2016) now favor Biden because … funny thing … they somehow take exception to Trump’s plan to offer them up as human sacrifices on the germ-infested altar of “herd immunity,” and promises to permanently defund Social Security and Medicare if he gets another term.
Farm and factory workers want to stop losing jobs to lousy trade and tariff deals or their jobs sent to child slave laborers in China, Vietnam or Mexico.
And tens of millions of people with pre-existing conditions know that their only chance to obtain and retain health care is to elect those who will actually protect it.
Republicans know that when more people vote, Republicans lose.
Republicans know that, as a whole, WE THE PEOPLE do not want them.
With gerrymandered congressional and legislative districts and an Electoral College and senate weighted in favor of small, rural, conservative populations, they count on a small but sure minority that always votes and, in the districts of THEIR voters there are NOT the long lines and voter purges.
Long lines = making it more inconvenient to vote in targeted communities = voter suppression.
But this year, voters are fighting back. There is a backlash. The suppression is fueling a determination in many communities not to be suppressed. Voter turnout is in record-setting droves and Republicans are getting worried that a Big Blue Wave is about to crash.
Young people are voting to end the destruction and devastation of the climate and environment they will live their futures in.
African Americans and Latinos want to elect leaders who will make sure that their lives do matter.
Women want to elect those who will protect their right to control their own bodies and not appoint Supreme Court justices who believe that women should be submissive “handmaids” to their husbands and let their husbands dictate their votes and their lives.
Seniors (who voted bigly for Trump in 2016) now favor Biden because … funny thing … they somehow take exception to Trump’s plan to offer them up as human sacrifices on the germ-infested altar of “herd immunity,” and promises to permanently defund Social Security and Medicare if he gets another term.
Farm and factory workers want to stop losing jobs to lousy trade and tariff deals or their jobs sent to child slave laborers in China, Vietnam or Mexico.
And tens of millions of people with pre-existing conditions know that their only chance to obtain and retain health care is to elect those who will actually protect it.