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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOpen note to Kyrsten Sinema
You have publicly stated that, even though you support the voting rights bills, that you would not support the filibuster carve out to get them passed. because it would further political polarization. I would submit that the overbidding concern should be the notion of the right to vote because with out that we don't have democracy or potentially any of our rights.
If you look at the history of politics in our nation throughout history, for most of it, it has been more regional than ideological. It is only recently that the parties have become ideologically driven. For most of our history one party has been dominant while the other has been relegated to seeking compromise and accepting whatever gains they can occasionally attain. Since the early 1990s both parties have had the ability to win a national election thru the electoral college. That coupled with the ideological bent of both parties has made the atmosphere what it is. This is going to continue until one party becomes dominant. Not getting the voting rights bills passed is delaying the possibility of the Democratic Party becoming the dominant party and thus making the changes to help better peoples lives in our society.
Irish_Dem
(47,395 posts)Has nothing to do with voting rights.
All about who gets all the power.
Botany
(70,581 posts)n/t
Irish_Dem
(47,395 posts)And this benefits one party only. The party who has to cheat to win.
Johonny
(20,888 posts)that right more that the filibuster
Botany
(70,581 posts)... because it all comes down to the money they will get from blocking changes in our energy policy,
pharmaceuticals, or making elections more open and cleaner. They are bought and paid for by the
super rich, the fossil fuel industries, and big pharma and they don't give one shit about America,
Americans, and the planet.
Botany
(70,581 posts).... to protect it and God only knows what the pharmaceutical pull in every year in their rigged
market and Sinema knows she will have to work a day again for the rest of her life. Stopping
voting rights has to do with keeping power too. The republicans have been keeping by stopping
targeted people from voting for years. William Rhnquist made his GOP bones by stopping blacks
and Mexicans from voting in Arizona in the 1960s.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)MLAA
(17,327 posts)Im a Southern Arizonan so she is my Senator. I will not be voting for her again.
Irish_Dem
(47,395 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)One of which starts with the letter "F"