A Recognition of Self-Evident Truths is not being Political

Posted on April 17, 2021

With his unsolicited warning last week where he alleged Big Businesses are inappropriately becoming involved in politics, McConnell fails to realize that the positions companies are taking against Republican efforts to attack the right of every citizen to vote freely and without burdensome restrictions is not based upon a desire to become political.   Instead, it is based upon a desire to remain ethical, decent, responsible but, most of all, it is based upon the desire to remain American.  Any red blooded American who believes in self-rule and the ideas of our Founding Fathers also believes in the concept that the right to vote should be made available to all American citizens. 

For corporations like, Delta Airlines, MLB, Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Ford, Bank of America and hundreds of other large companies, this is not political.  This is a basic right that all real Americans hold sacred.  We should be making that right to vote easier for all American citizens…not more difficult.  We should not be thinking up clever and insidious ways to reintroduce Jim Crow laws into our society.

In no way should the right to vote become just another inaccessible luxury to people without means, denied to people who cannot afford a car or who do not have the affluence to take time off due to unpredictable work schedules. It is a basic ternate of our American form of democracy that we consider all people.  It is written in our Declaration of Independence.  It is written in our Constitution. Even in cases where people do not have a license to drive because obtaining a license for something they cannot afford to use would be impractical; we need to consider these citizens.

The Republican Party has made us keenly aware of the fact that it is now the Anti-Democracy Party.  The Republican Party seems to be on a terrible, un-American crusade to promote authoritarian ideas. The Republican Party lies about election fraud just like any two-bit authoritarian regime would lie in order to maintain its control. 

Ironically and disturbingly, the Republican Party is committing its own fraud while doing so. It has a propaganda machine that rivals the one Nazi Germany had in the 1930’s.  It promotes slogans that are just as dishonest and scary as the ones the Nazi’s promoted about winning World War I.  It touts criminally inclined Reality TV Bone-Spurred autocratic leaders, giving them lead positions in their organization.  The Republican Party offers these Teflon Dons immunity from anti-corruption, abuses of power and sedition laws the Dons have violated.  The Republican Party is charting a course for itself that has more in common with Russia and the present anti-democratic military state of Myanmar than it does with any American ideas about liberty, justice, democracy and principles that all men are created equal.

McConnell fails to realize that participating in the democratic process is a right of every citizen even the ones that vote against him and even when he finds Big Businesses no longer will go along with his Party’s Anti-American efforts to corrupt and neuter our 244 year old experiment in self-rule.  Anyone that fails to speak up for the right to vote freely and conveniently fails in their duty to be loyal to our American ideas of democracy.  It would be a dereliction in citizenship for anyone not to speak up.

That’s why these companies are taking a stand against Republican efforts to dismantle our voting rights.  Big Business’s reaction against these Republican efforts is not political.  It’s American.  It’s done out of a sense of duty and loyalty to the ideas put forth in our Declaration of Independence and in our Constitution.  Voting rights are truths that are self-evident.