“We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” President Joe Biden hyperbolically orated on Tuesday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
“That’s not hyperbole,” he insisted, repeating, for emphasis, “Since the Civil War.”
Referring to state legislation passed or proposed by Republicans regarding various election procedures, Mr. Biden must remember the Jim Crow Era with its “literacy tests, poll taxes, elaborate registration systems, and eventually whites-only Democratic Party primaries to exclude black voters,” since he also smeared these current Republican polices as a “21st-century Jim Crow assault.”*
President Joe painted a picture of “unprecedented voter suppression” and “raw and sustained election subversion” and more.
Somehow, the media chorus line just repeats this nonsense.
Ignore the years of prominent Democrats’ straight-faced berating of Republican support for voter ID laws as nothing more than a purposely racist suppression tactic . . . immediately followed the Democrats’ recent about-face claim that they had always supported voter ID.
Even as they continue to push federal legislation that would effectively obliterate such ID laws in 35 states.**
Then contrast the bill passed in Georgia or being considered in Texas with the process in Biden’s home state of Delaware, which “doesn’t allow 24-hour or no-excuse drive-through voting,” as Karl Rove explains in The Wall Street Journal.
“It won’t begin early voting until 2022 and then for . . . fewer days than Texas,” which has had early voting for more than three decades.
Somehow, Mr. Biden has never denigrated Delaware for Jim Crow-ism.
Yet he may be right that “bullies and merchants of fear and peddlers of lies are threatening the very foundation of our country.”
Peddler of lies, know thyself.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
* Not to mention that a certain “Biden crime bill” passed decades ago may have led to more disenfranchisement of voters — especially voters of color — than any single piece of legislation since . . . the Civil War.
** This HR1 would also allow partisan control of the Federal Election Commission, for the first time ever — the most potentially speech-suppressing provision of any state or federal legislation.
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Writing In his diary on June 15, 1987, Ronald Reagan described Biden this way: he’s smooth, but pure demagogue.
Wasn’t Reagan suffering from dementia at this time?