Democrats lie about lying about voter ID
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Let's not sugarcoat this: For decades, Democratic politicians and their enablers in the media cartel have flat-out lied when claiming it is racist to require voters to provide proof of their identities.
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A sudden about-face on the issue by Democratic leaders shows the allegation was a cynical, race-baiting falsehood all along.
The change occurred when Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said he could support the so-called John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act if Democrats would amend it in several ways, including voter ID requirements to cast a ballot.
The bill would allow federal bureaucrats to supersede state sovereignty over election practices, thus forcing procedural changes expected to benefit Democrats.
The John Lewis Act contains numerous jokers in the deck worthy of separate analysis. Those jokers are seen as so helpful to Democrats that party leaders, knowing Manchin is a key swing vote, are happy to embrace Manchin's voter ID demand to gain his support for the overall package. For years, Democrats found voter ID requirements an easy target for cheap charges of racism. Now that requiring voter ID helps them accomplish their larger political goals, they pretend it was never a big deal.
In 2014, then-President Barack Obama blasted voter ID laws as a serious barrier to black voters. Now, he endorses Manchin's "compromise" measure that would include an ID requirement.
What changed? Naked political calculation.
In 2018, Georgia's wannabe governor, Stacey Abrams, said voter ID laws are intended to "scare people out of voting." Now, she audaciously says, "No one has ever objected to having to prove who you are to vote. It's been part of our nation's history since the inception of voting."
For years, then-Pastor Raphael Warnock, now a senator from Georgia, claimed ID laws were a form of "voter suppression" so "unnecessary and unjustifiable" that they amount to "dismember[ing]" Martin Luther King Jr.
Now he lies, "I have never been opposed to voter ID. And in fact, I don't know anybody who is."
On goes the roster of Democrats and leftist groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union who opposed voter-ID laws as "part of an ongoing strategy to roll back decades of progress on voting rights." The most recent Democratic summary sheet for the John Lewis Act repeatedly names voter ID laws as a chief example of the supposedly nefarious practices it aims to combat.
Now that they see what Manchin sees — the public supports voter ID despite the Left's decades of scaremongering against it — they are finally willing to jettison the claims they knew were meretricious all along. They knew that even liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens led the way in pronouncing voter ID fully constitutional as a legitimate interest in preventing vote fraud. They knew former President Jimmy Carter, hardly a racist, led a Commission on Federal Election Reform that embraced voter ID.
They knew long ago states that implemented ID laws tended to see minority voting participation rise, not fall. And they knew that even honest liberal outlets acknowledge major studies repeatedly show "state ID laws don't stop voters."
Still, until about a week ago, they kept throwing out false charges anyway because they thought the lies served their political purposes.
In doing so, they pushed a fiction for decades insulting to black people. The fiction was that blacks are somehow too helpless to secure any acceptable forms of ID and too frightened to show identification at the polls. They also pushed the noxious narrative that the United States remains so racist that blacks rightly fear authorities or vigilantes will terrorize them for showing enough identification to vote.
Well, nine years ago, a centrist, black, Democratic former U.S. representative from Alabama, Artur Davis, made a series of speeches belittling these lies. Holding up a valid driver's license, Davis would say, recalling violent civil rights battles of the past, that "this is not a billy club. This is not a fire hose ... This is not Jim Crow … This tiny little thing that doesn't wound, that has no sharp edges."
He added, "To call photo ID a degradation of human rights is not only something that is so fundamentally wrong but is something my parents would not even recognize ... That [claim that ID requirements violate human rights] is the old tactic of telling us the very opposite of what is true."
Davis was right. Now that national Democrats effectively admit as much, will they apologize for their years of race-hustling humbug?
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HELL to the NO, they won't.
Race-hustling is one of the few things the Democratic Party does well.
They live to lie about stuff like this.
The repukes? Yes, indeed!
So they are willing to "concede" voter ID's for in person voting? That is the carrot- something that most states already have in place; so they are giving up nothing by throwing it in.
Wonder how big of a stick they are going to cram up any thinking person's ass in return? Mail in ballots on demand with no reason necessary? Unmonitored drop boxes available 24/7 at key locations up until election day? Ballot harvesting legal everywhere? Federally mandated voting districts?
Something most states already have; in return for federally run elections everywhere. Sorry, not buying it. This is just the same BS in a different package.
You’ve got them figured out.
Warnock is a liar--straight up.
He was opposed to voter ID and said so.
Now he has a bout of amnesia and can't remember opposing voter ID and inexplicably says he doesn't even know anyone who has opposed it. Has he been under a fucking rock for the last 20 years????
It is unbelievable how anybody can deny doing something when they are on video doing what they now deny doing. Don’t they have any idea how hypocritically stupid they look? Or are they just counting on the stupidity of their supporters?
I believe it’s the latter.
Deflecting, derailing, projecting, that is all that is.
And SPAM.
Of course!
IT'S TRUE!
yes, it certainly is true that it is SPAM, deflecting, derailing, projecting, and that is all that is.
No, what I posted is the truth.
No, it’s not!
Yes, it is!
Are we supposed not to notice that all 50 Senators in the damn gop voted against the universal voter ID offered to them in the Democrat's compromise bill? Every one of them? 100% of them? That's the story!
Doesn't that prove the gop only wants to suppress the vote? That they don't care about securing the vote?
Maybe if you read the article you’d understand why?
Why did all gop Senators vote NO on voter ID?
Because the GOP Senators are smart enough to know that wasn't what they were voting on only.
As explained already in 4.2.
Read the article.
I did. My original comment was my response.
Hard to believe that anyone would write that comment AFTER reading the article.
You don't seem to be able to understand a lot!
You must not have red my comment.
I said it was hard to believe, not that I didn't understand it.
Interesting concept!
That wasn't the only thing in the bill. And continuing to paint a dishonest picture of Republican opposition isn't going to help with the perception voters will have of the party that has steadfastly and LOUDLY proclaimed that voter ID is racist, only to suddenly backtrack for political purposes only and expose their own lies.
Voter suppression is a liberal myth today. One constantly spread by liberal progressives intent on lying about it.
Therefore, I got you. You are busted. Called it!
WTF are you babbling on about????????
Please make sense.
100% of the lying gop in the US Senate, all 50 of them, voted against the compromise offer by the Democrats which included voter ID...
Senseless to keep repeating yourself. No one is disputing what the vote was.
As stated earlier, the GOP understood that it wasn't the sole thing they were voting on, and is disingenuous and a weak argument to pretend otherwise.
But knock yourself out.
The speed in which the Democrats gave in to one of their own on voter ID should indicate to all that their opposition was nothing more than a lie for years.
Should, but in all likelihood won't.
Maybe all those folks who somehow, against such overwhelming odds, managed to vote last year will stop voting for the party that has been dishonest in the opposition to voter ID and are now dishonest in their "support" of it.
No. The only lying about anything concerned with voting are the GOP of whom for reasons yet to be determined will not even discuss the subject.
How interesting.
You totally ignore the truths in the article and the proof of lies presented.
You totally dismiss the entire premise of the article even though proof is plainly put in front of you.
You present zero evidence for your "claim", as expected.
Your Democrats have been lying to you for decades. Why do you keep falling for it repeatedly?
Its funny to watch someone who supported Donald Trump , perhaps the biggest liar in American history, try and lecture other people about lying.
What 'proof' is that Tex? Posting truncated exerts of statements out of context are 'proof of NOTHING.
BTW, the author of your seed misrepresents the context of Abrams' statement, not that you care.
probably as much fun as reading your almost-daily hit pieces on the man you love to hate for the last 4 years.
Read the article.
Understand the article.
Get back to me afterwards.
Or not.
Who cares?
I did ALL of that Tex.
Get back to me when you read and understand MY comment.
Or not, who cares.
Yes, your seeds and comments prove quite clearly that you are unimpressed with facts and the truth Tex.
Do let me know when you post a fact.
I would like to see that.
You certainly haven't posted any on this thread.
Actually, I did Tex. Here, I'll repeat it:
I will correct myself--you did point out one fact--I don't give a fuck.
Thank you for stating the obvious Tex. Your seed claims that 'democrats lie' then proceeds to lie about Democrats.
Your seed is another example of bullshit written by bias authors who do and say what they pretend to abhor.
Well done.
No, it simply tells the truth about Democrats, and some people get offended by the truth--this is a perfect example of it.
Surely no one actually breathing believes that he doesn't even "know anyone opposed to voter ID".
If they do, they should seek immediate medical attention.
Yet you stated that my comment:
Is a fact.
Since you admit that your seed misrepresents the context of Abrams' statement, your seed does NO tell the truth about Democrats.
Simple logic Tex.
Your "logic" leaves much to be desired.
I'll leave it at that for now.
Lying about what I have posted when the post is still there is rather silly and very weak.
Do better.
be honest.
How so Tex. What part of my logic fails?
Typical.
What did I lie about Tex. Please be specific.
I always do much better than the innuendo you posted.
I have been. I challenge you to prove otherwise.
If you can't even recognize it, explanation would be a waste of time.
Read your own posts, read mine, figure that shit out!
So unsurprisingly, you've got nothing.
On the contrary, I have everything I need!
bantering with the SVR. it is a circle jerk.
That is the main point the gop is desperate to hide!
And what lies are you going to claim the GOP is telling regarding voting?
All of them...
How very conveniently vague.
Mega dittos. lol
Democrats on Voter ID . . .
2014: That’s racist!
2015: That’s racist!
2016: That’s racist!
2017: That’s racist!
2018: That’s racist!
2019: That’s racist!
2020: That’s racist!
2021: Yeah, no problem. We’ve always supported Voter ID. Why wouldn’t we?
Why did every gop Senator vote against voter ID?
Was it because suppressing the vote is their aim?
You realize that doesn't even make sense, right?
And anyway, if Voter ID was in the alternative bill, it seems pretty obvious that they would know that. So they obviously voted against the bad bill with Voter ID so they could have a chance to vote for a better one. I mean . . . it should be obvious. But that would require something you seem unwilling to do.
What I am saying is that it is faulty logic to contend that 100% of Republican US Senators, all 50 of them, voting against the proposed compromise voting rights bill offered by the Democrats which included a stipulation requiring universal voter ID, DOES NOT VINDICATE THE GOP FROM CHARGES OF RACISM. in fact, it actually confirms them!
Ridiculous and untrue.
First, no one said anything about vindicating the GOP from charges of racism.
Second, the story in no way says anything about the GOP, much less specifically confirming racism.
I wonder if some folks will ever even realize that the Democratic Party has been lying to them for years about voter ID?
I wonder if some folks will ever even realize that the republikkans are lying sacks of shit and have been lying to everyone for DECADES about EVERYTHING?
Gee, some brilliant person should seed an article on THAT instead of derailing, deflecting, denying, and projecting on this one.