Thread by @page88

Republicans can’t win democratically, so they have turned on democracy. That seems clear.

But American democracy also has momentum of its own & voters seem increasingly ready to do battle with voting restrictions.

The 2022 elections should be explicitly reframed as the voters v. the voting restrictions.

There’s a clear role for the private sector here.

Most US corporations are still pro-democracy because “consumerism is democracy” is the American brand. At the same time, the GOP leadership has baited “woke” (lol) Coke, MLB, Delta, Merck, Starbucks, & Google & threatens to deny tax breaks.

These companies should call their bluff.

Here are my simple ideas for how, come Election Day, America’s national drink, Coca-Cola, musth” hard-sell democracy to the United States of America, the way it sold democracy to France, Germany, the former Soviet States, Asia, etc.

economist.com/1843/2021/06/2…

The best thing I can imagine in Georgia in 2022 is a Coke truck on every street corner handing out free Dasani and Coke and Sprite to voters. Within, of course, the letter of the new 150ft restriction.

Coke promotes the vote in South Africa and around the world. Why not here?

While the poor jacked US is busy avoiding moral rigor as usual—no truth & reconciliation, no reparations—Coke needs to bring back the easier and more familiar American path: Sugar water for our troubles, and voting as heroism.