The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate.
The House voted 218-213 to pass the SAVE America Act, which experts have said could disenfranchise millions by requiring voters to show documentary proof of citizenship at registration and to provide photo ID when they cast ballots.
Republicans have argued for voter ID broadly, pointing out that there isn’t much to prevent a noncitizen from casting a ballot in a federal election — besides the fact that it’s a felony, easily caught, and would lead to deportation all for the chance to cast one out of hundreds of thousands of votes.
The US was always doomed to fail. You can’t make a nation out of an empire. You can’t build a democracy on top of slavery, colonialism and genocide.
I think there are some well meaning people trying very hard to make it work, and god bless them, but they’re certain to fail.
The only thing to do now is try and find a viable exit strategy. The US Federal government will soon be completely and permanently taken over by the terrorist organization that is the Republican party. It’s time for states to start forming their own, independent militias while the 2nd amendment at least still exists. We can hope that peaceful secession will be possible, but we certainly cannot plan on it.
Substitute half of present day European countries into that first paragraph and see how true that rings
The colonial empires of Europe didn’t just convert to democratic nations, they were destroyed, through revolutions and wars, including two devastating world wars. And from the rubble of the old European empires, nations were formed, many of which are democracies, though of varying quality. The US is a legacy of those European colonial empires. So, for the US to follow the same path, the US empire must be destroyed (although hopefully in a more peaceful, less harmful manner), so that new democratic nations can be formed in its place.
This is why I find it so funny when the US celebrates its independence day. Bitch, independence from who? Yourself? (I know from who, but I think it’s kinda bullshit. It’s like if the British committed genocide in India, and then declared independence. Kinda dilutes the meaning of the word.)
What the US can do is set up various client states, like Napoleon. The US has enough military power to arbitrarily redraw any borders it wants. Hell, they could reinstate the French monarchy if they wanted to.
Like Burgundy, the US would then be able to institute a unique yet artificial nation.