From the time of the Three-fifths Compromise in 1787 to determine federal representation, we have been a nation that increased the political power of a white minority while devaluing the power of minorities of color. The current Republican leadership is now doubling down on their intent to achieve minority rule while disenfranchising those of color, and they are doing this in the open.
State Republican legislatures have for some time used any means they can find, from reducing numbers of polling places in areas of minority concentration to requiring forms of voter ID, in order to make it difficult for certain identifiable groups to vote. In the recent presidential election, the national Republican Party has even attempted to stop states from making it easier for people to vote in spite of decades of talking about the importance of states’ rights.
The final desperate action is that of a few senators and over 100 representatives, including some in Pennsylvania, pledging to use Congress to go against the will of the people in order to overturn the results of what has been determined to be the “most secure in history”!
Our Republicans in office have become so drunk on power that they no longer value the nation or the Constitution.
Robert J. Reiland
O’Hara