2. The reasons for giving up are well known: filibuster, Manchin, Sinema. An unhill fight and do you want to wasted resources on a very uncertain thing when you could be focusing on walk-arounds (pushing enforcement of existing civil rights laws, donor investment in GOTV).
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3. The best argument for de-priotizing voting rights is that it only matters on the margins & that a strong economy is more important in deciding elections. There's something to that but...
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4. Margins matter in very close elections, as USA elections are these days. Both last 2 presidencies decided by less than 80,000 votes in 3 states. Also walk-arounds seem flimsy since courts whittling away existing voting rights laws.
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5. Bottom line is that there is a disconnect between Dem rhetoric (existential threat!) and actions (de-prioritizing voting rights laws). That disconnect is likely to be demoralizing to Dem voters:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/biden-turns-his-back-on-voting-rights?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Ok. I'm curious. Why? And, what does that mean going forward?
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it rules that we were told that democracy was at stake in the last election and it's critical to elect Biden and win back the Senate only for him to completely give up in less than 6 months
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My take. It doesn't matter. Changing the Constitution is all that will save us. We need a real democracy and our current Constitution doesn't provide us one.https://617to416.medium.com/why-voting-wont-save-america-s-democracy-9bd7702b4c76 …
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