Thread by @ahumorlessfem

Kevin Drum wrote a stupid article (not linking to it because oh my glob is it bad) but this was particularly egregious:

He starts out reasonable and then careens right into a damn brick wall.

Yes, they are loathsome acts of desperation.

BUT THEY ARE STILL WRONG AND JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE JUMPING THROUGH THE HOOPS MADE DOESN'T MAKE IT OKAY.

Part of why 2016 was a clusterfuck was because people WERE having their right to vote stripped AND IT FUCKING WORKED TO DESTROY DEMOCRATIC CHANCES.

That DIRECTLY led to MILLIONS becoming ill in the US alone. It led DIRECTLY to millions more outside the US becoming ill as well because OUR leadership wasn't there like it had been for decades.

That DIRECTLY led to Puerto Rico having a destroyed infrastructure with zero effort to rebuild it properly. Thousands have died that would not have if we had Democratic leadership.

There are millions of examples of why the fact that Republican voter suppression is not merely loathsome but had massive detrimental affect on the United States and the world.

But yay, apparently it is all okay to have millions at risk of becoming homeless, their meds delayed, a national pandemic disaster, and a major US territory wrecked because Kevin Drum is happy voters are having to go above and beyond to get their fucking votes counted.

Oh and he talks about how the judiciary is split between Democratic and Republican appointed judges.
1. It should be heavily Democratic as we won in 2012.
2. The Republicans appointed are hotly opposed to any expansion of rights for anyone not white and male like...KEVIN DRUM.

One final thing: the reason we are yelling our heads off about the way the Republicans are going is to reverse the harm already done and *prevent new harm* from happening that is much much worse.

Like taking extreme precautions with a new deadly disease.

The goal is to not get to the even more death part of where the Republicans are headed.