Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "AOC GOES AFTER Manchin, Sinema over voting rights act" video.

CIVILIZED countries around the world use Voter ID, and look askance at the USA for not securing its elections. The filibuster protects the minority against the tyranny of the majority. If more than 1/3 of the nation is dead set against the majority, then the majority must COMPROMISE. Eliminating the filibuster on presidential appointments allowed Trump to ram through a lot of his appointments, despite Democrat opposition. Pure majority rule has been tried and failed miserably in the Roman Empire. Majority-rule aspects of our CURRENT system have created a real Bread-and-Circuses situation in the USA. There's a REASON for the filibuster. Also, the "gerrymandering" issue is more nuanced than they make it out to be. What if there are 30% Democrats and 70% Republicans in a state? Without redrawing districts carefully, you would have ZERO Democrats in Congress from that state! So a 30% minority would have ZERO representation. And it doesn't have to be that extreme. It could be 51% to 49% but again, ZERO representation for half of the state/nation. HR1 is what Democrats HOPE will mean one-party Democrat rule forever. We can't let that happen. Then there's the danger to Democrats of severe blowback, giving those powers to the Republicans. All it would take would be one election, and as long as the Republicans didn't do anything too crazy, they could shut out the Democrats in perpetuity. What the Democrats want is for the cities to dictate everything. If you live OUTside the city, they want you disenfranchised. And there's more than one way to disenfranchise voters. One is by allowing illegal aliens to vote, even though they don't have the right and should be deported. Ballot harvesting is another way. Just send your Democrat operatives to nursing homes and the housing projects. "Help" people with their ballots, checking all Democrat candidates. This is pretty blatant in Democrat strongholds. Only Republicans seem concerned about this, because Democrats don't care about principles. All they care about is winning.
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@gigi6374 The irony is that all that went out the window during the Civil War. Slavery was the excuse, but up to that point, the Union was only as strong as the states' willingness to remain. Lincoln decided that the Union was the most important thing. When the nation abolished slavery, the states that still had it should have been permitted to secede. They'd have come around in very short time, because only about 2% of the South actually owned slaves, and the moral outrage at slavery was going to overturn slavery relatively quickly and bloodlessly. And when you drill down into the CULTURE, most Southerners were WAY less bigoted against Africans than Northerners. Slavery bad. Doing away with federalism also bad. Persuasion good. Compulsion and use of force bad.
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@feedyourmind6713 Yes. And all it takes is one crum-bum in the White House or at the top of a federal agency to visit oppression on EVERYone. The "only the feds can do it right" attitude is why big corporations run everything, now. All they have to do is target a handful of people in Washington, D.C. and all the regulations ensure that BIG has and even bigger advantage over SMALL than it otherwise would. It's funny and sad at the same time that my liberal friends will rail for hours about corporatocracy and crony capitalism, and insist that the federal government do MORE. It's BECAUSE of federal interventions over the last century (some would argue 2 centuries) that crony capitalism is so prevalent. Whom do legislatures consult when crafting laws regulating x, y, or z? The heads of the biggest companies, that's who! It's the same with federal agencies. They consult with the biggest corporations in the industries they regulate, when they're crafting their regulations. And no surprise, there's a revolving door between the top spots in federal agencies and the boards of directors of the biggest corporations! So liberals are their own worst enemies! "Please put the fox in charge of the henhouse!"
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Voter ID makes it a lot harder to CHEAT. Voter ID is a threat to permanent Demokkkrat hegemony.
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