The purpose of HR1 aka the For the People Act of 2021 is to increase access to voting, curb Big Money’s influence in politics and fight corruption, as well as increase transparency in political donations and prevent gerrymandering.
So, of course, the Republicans are vehemently opposed to the bill.
In fact, Sen. Ted Cruz has overdramatically characterized it as a move by Democrats to ensure they never lose an election at any level for the next century. In other words, he’s accusing Dems of trying to do EXACTLY what Republicans have been doing and want to perpetuate. Call it gaslighting, hypocrisy, projection—it all adds some to the same nefarious result: the #QOP wants to disenfranchise as many voters as possible in areas where residents vote mostly for Democrats. Pure and simple.
To this end, Treasonous Ted fearmongers and lies in order to greedily hang on to power, knowing all too well that their voter ID laws, cutting polling hours and frequent voter roll purges are simply #QOP efforts to hinder the PoC vote and further guarantee a tyranny of the minority by putting a chokehold on democracy. Fuck him and the rest of ‘em.
You would think that instead of pulling this treacherous bullshit, standing by the guy who lost the White House by 7 million votes, lost them the House twice, lost them the Senate and left office with a 34% approval rating, they’d be working hard at expanding their base. I mean, there’s plenty of conservative PoC who they could probably attract. But those folks don’t want to share a tent with neo-Nazis, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and other assorted racists the #QOP embraces in order to win. And that’s not counting the Republican voters they’ve been losing since the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol of this past January 6th. So if you can’t grow the party and your followers are leaving in significant numbers, what’s left? Putting restrictions on those who vote for your opponents, that’s what.
But even more vigorously now.
When we saw them unanimously oppose in both houses of Congress a bill that 60% of their own base supports, the #QOP confirmed what we already knew: not only do they not want to take steps to attract more voters but they want to bamboozle the ones they already have. Republicans don't want to do the necessary work to ensure the #QOP can expand, they want to limit who can vote for the Democrats, period. And that, right there, is not just evidence of the deep rot at the core of today's Republican party, but further confirmation that they are the party of Trump, with or without him.
