see url: https://www.wsj.com/articles/corporate-americas-big-lie-11617315583
see full article...I have always said that citizens should be encouraged
to vote, and one of the ways of doing so, is to make it easy for them to
vote...and that includes those, who through no fault of their own may be
illiterate or even homeless...If they are a citizen, then they have a
right to vote. Having the right to vote, means that a democratic state,
whether it has a written or unwritten constitution, should encourage its
citizenry to vote, even if they live abroad...and not make it difficult
for people to vote, or use voter suppression methods in the name of
security. Of course the state should make sure that the person exists
and is entitled to vote in that state...and there are various ways of
recognising that, whether it be a driving license, or a passport or an
i.d. card, or a bank account or a couple of recent utilities bills,
which they can use to get themselves registered to vote. Also, the
citizenry should have the right to choose to vote by postal ballot, or
to vote in person, and the state should make it easy for them to do so,
particularly in times when there may be a pandemic on the go, which
makes it difficult for the vulnerable to vote. If people have to wait
in long queues to vote, and it is very hot, why not allow volunteers to
give them free sustenance. As long as the volunteers are not trying to
bribe them or in any way influence them, that shouldn't be a problem.
With proper registration, voting shouldn't be a problem, and the
important thing is, people should be given the benefit of the doubt when
it comes to voting...so, they have forgotten their i.d...when they
present themselves at the polling booth...should they be prevented from
voting? Of course not, if they are registered, then the voting clerk at
the polling booth will have a record of the voter, a voter number which
pertains to the address of the voter...So, if someone does personate a
voter, it will be so small, that it will not affect the outcome of the
poll...That is the way to do it, not this hamfisted, dressed up way
which the GOP is using to try and limit voting, or, use voter
suppression methods. It was proved conclusively during the last
Presidential election that there were no places in the USA where
personation brought about a change in the outcome of the vote...The GOP
and Trump took it all the way up to the Supreme Court, and the court
through out every case. Now the GOP is trying to prevent people from
voting, even though the outcome was no different from what it would have
been. And they are pretending that it has nothing to do with voter
suppression, but to do with correcting anomalies...what anomalies? The
anomalies are, that the GOP has such a poor election programme that it
doesn't atrract ethnic minorities, non-christians, or poor people, who
are now voting for the Democrats. They should change their policies to
suit the needs of the citizens, that's the way to win elections, not
pour billions of dollars into election propaganda which suits the big
corporations who don't pay any taxes...or stop being so racist, or
prevent the unemployed or poor from getting jobs; or start looking after
the planet properly...or make it a human right that every person in the
nation is entitled to a job, it is their human right; then they might
get back in again next time...simples init...😉 The GOP needs to become
less regressive...there is nuffink worse than a regressive, ultra
conservative party...they need to become a progressive conservative
party with values of equality and equal opportunity for all sectors of
the community...and tax the rich and wealthy and put in laws which
prevent the rich from not paying their proper dues to society...😁
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Corporate chieftains last year criticized Donald Trump for denying his
re-election defeat. So it’s quite a spectacle to see them actively
spreading the left’s own big lie about elections.
According to Delta CEO Ed Bastian, there is only one reason Georgia
passed a voting reform: to suppress the votes of black Americans and
other minorities. Georgia’s Republican Legislature used the “excuse” of
voter fraud to “make it harder for many underrepresented voters” to
“exercise their constitutional right to elect their representatives,”
Mr. Bastian wrote this week in a memo to employees.
Mr. Bastian has plenty of company in the C-suites. Some 72 black
executives, including the CEO of Merck and a former CEO of American
Express, signed an open letter calling on corporate colleagues to fight
“undemocratic” and “un-American” GOP efforts across the states to
“assault” the “fundamental tenets of our democracy.” Coca-Cola,
Microsoft and Apple chimed in, and dozens more are readying outraged
press releases.
Nancy Pelosi couldn’t be more thrilled. Democrats and the activist left
have long honed their techniques for intimidating corporations. They
successfully pressured companies into withdrawing contributions from
free-market groups, into embracing a climate-change agenda, into
refraining from political contributions, into adopting new “social”
investment criteria.
Enlisting corporate America to help peddle a patently false narrative is
their biggest success by far. The left spent last year using litigation
and political pressure to alter and weaken election standards across the
country. Democratic lawmakers and the Biden administration moved swiftly
to cement this effort with a federal takeover of state election law, the
bill known as H.R.1.
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