When Democrats won in November, by means fair or foul, and then somehow won the two Georgia Senate seats, they decided that they finally had a mandate to do whatever they wanted.  After all, they have a corrupt demented imbecile President who barely won, and who barely knows he’s alive.  They have a five seat majority in the House, and the Senate is split 50-50, permitting Cackling Kamala to break ties.  Surely, this overwhelming Blue Wave would permit Democrats to legislate to their Socialist heart’s content.  But no so fast.  The key piece of legislation on the Democrat wish list is H.R.1, euphemistically known as “The For the People Act.”  I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s worth saying again, Democrats, like all totalitarian despots, camouflage their true intentions by giving benign, or pleasant sounding names to proposals that are actually calculated to steal you blind while you’re not looking, e.g., The Affordable Care Act.  Any bill with the word “People” in it deserves special scrutiny.  When despots resort to pandering to “the people” they’re really up to no good.  In Soviet Russia, the People’s Commisariat for State Security sounded beneficial, but it was the NKGB, whose job it was to torture and kill people that Stalin and Lavrenty Beria didn’t like.  The Chinese Communists have the People’s Liberation Army, which in true Orwellian fashion, exists to oppress the people.  Ask the “people” in Tianamen Square in 1989 how liberated they were.  In Nazi Germany, People’s Courts existed for the purpose of condemning to death real and imangined enemies of Adolph Hitler, who were thereupon hung with paino wire.  So much for those people.  And now comes the Democrats’ crowning jewel, H.R. 1, “The For the People Act.”  A better name for it would be The Screw the People Act, because the only role despots envision for “the people,” is to shut up and do what they’re told.  According to the Heritage Foundation, H.R. 1 would federalize the election process, and impose unnecessary, unwise, and unconstitutional mandates on the States.   H.R. 1 would do a number of things, all of them bad for America.  Here are the lowlights:  usurp the authority of States to regulate voter registration and the voting process by forcing States to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, and online voter registration; make fraud easier by denying election officials the time to verify voter eligibility; mandate 15 days of early voting; require states to automatically register all “individuals,” not just “citizens;” make it a crime for a state official to reject a voter registration application because the official believes the individual is ineligible to vote (in other words, it’s a crime to do your job); mandate no-fault absentee ballots, the tool of choice for vote thieves; mandate ballot harvesting; prohibit state officials from purging voter lists of ineligible voters (more than 30 million people move each year; they’ll be registered in more than one place); ban State voter ID laws (how would we identify a voter, we’ll ask his name, he’ll tell us – good enough); expand regulation and government censorship of campaigns and political activity and speech (We don’t need no stinking First Amendment); allow felons to vote; prohibit State legislatures from drawing Congressional Districts; authorize the IRS to engage in partisan activity by permitting it to consider the political  positions of nonprofit organizations; require court challenges to be brought in the D.C. Circuit, the challengers limited to only one lawyer; establish a “Commission to Protect Democratic Institutions” (Remember, if it sounds good, it’s bad)  that would threaten the independence of the judiciary by compelling judges to testify and justify their legal decisions, and subjecting them to political pressure and harassment.  This monstrosity violates Article I, section 4, Article II, section 1, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and the spearation of powers doctrine, so of course, Democrats think it’s a great idea.  The problem is, not all Democrats are on board.  In the House, Crazy Nancy will, no doubt, crack the whip and get her caucus to rubber stamp it.  But in the Senate, two of the 50 Democrats say they won’t support the bill.  It’s sad that only two Democrats are honest enough, or more likely, are afraid enough of their constituents, to do the right thing, but Arizona’s Krysten Sinema and West Virginia’s Joe Manchin are it.  Manchin also is opposed to ending the Senate filibuster, you know, that procedure that Democrats now call “a remnant of Jim Crow, ” after they used it 314 times against President Trump.  Manchin explained, “It’s the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country, and I’m not supporting that because I think it would divide us more.  I don’t want to be in a country that’s divided any further.  Do we really want to live in an America where one Party can dictate and demand everything and anything it wants, whenever it wants?  I have always said, If I can’t go home and explain it, I can’t vote for it.”  Now, who could argue with that? Uh, Lefist Democrats, that’s who.  The Regressive Left is shocked, shocked, that Joe Manchin could have the audacity to oppose the Screw the People Act.  I mean, what purpose do Regressives serve other than to screw the people?  Outspoken Leftists have struck out at Manchin.  Jemele Hill, who was too crazy even for ESPN, excoriated Joe Manchin,
“Record number of black voters show up to save this democracy, only for white supremacy to be upheld by a cowardly, power-hungry white dude.”  At least now we get to the root of the problem, the problem with Manchin is, he’s too white.  Ever been to West Virginia, Jemele?  It doesn’t matter.  The Regressive Anthem seems to be “Race Uber Alles.”  N.Y.  Congressman Jamaal Bowman, (WHO?), who was elected last year, and is the only male member of “the Squad,” said  Manchin was doing “everything in his power to stop democracy.”  Maybe Jamaal has a different definition of “democracy.”  Judd Legum, co-founder of the ThinkProgress website, which is connected to Hillary bagman John Podesta, and is funded by George Soros and the Bill Gates Foundation, said Manchin’s reasons for opposing the Screw the People Act are “very strange.”  Consider that.  If you won’t vote for a divisive bill that harms America, which your constituents are dead set against, that’s “strange.”  A United States Senator who thinks for himself and doesn’t just do what he’s ordered to do is “strange.”  If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve no doubt noticed that Regressive Democrats also are strange.  It’s a good thing Joe Manchin is a Stranger in a Strange Land.