New Days

I believe we may have just passed a seminal moment in not just American politics but also American history.

The Biden administration along with the Democrats just failed to pass legislation that would ensure the federalization of U.S. voting, probably forever. I will ignore the almost certain constitutional considerations of such action. I will ignore the shell game antics, ala Obamacare, of inserting voting rights legislation into a hollowed out, unrelated bill to get it to the Senate floor. I don’t care that Biden et all probably used the last of their power in a failed attempt to ram through extremely partisan voting legislation. Or the fact that they attempted this on the heels of the damaging loss on the grab bag, progressive wish list legislation affectionately called Build Back Better (BBB). Or even that Democrats pushed for elimination of the Senate filibuster to drag their voters rights legislation across the finish line. I don’t even care, for this blog, that the Democratic party used increasingly vile personal attacks normally reserved for conservatives on their fellow Democrats that disagreed with them. None of that.

I want to talk about the fact that this voting legislation forced at least a cursory review of this decades old issue. You know. The Republicans point out that fraud issues all centered around voter I.D. in one way or another disenfranchise legally cast votes. Democrats for decades have actively ignored this point harder than Covid experts in the U.S. are ignoring natural immunity. Democrats have countered that the right to vote is paramount and that minorities in America have some inability to acquire a photo I.D. at the same rate as other Americans. Follow the dots and that makes requiring a photo I.D. racist when applied to voting in America. And a primary building block for Progressives to point to when they yell “racist” at a conservative was born.

During the run up to this vote, it was pointed out repeatedly that a large majority of American people (including a majority of minorities) do NOT believe that I.D. for voting is racist. Even though Biden used over the top hyperbole to frame the debate as a fight against the civil war and three historical racists (all Democrats BTW). And when the dust cleared the voting legislation failed.

So why is it new days? Maybe not today or tomorrow but one of the building blocks to the justification to call all conservatives as racists was disabused this week and that truth will come out more and more from this point forward. I take that as a win.