Let's put section 2 of the 14th amendment to work today

Let's put section 2 of the 14th amendment to work today.

Most people don't know about section 2 of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution, but it seems to me like now is the time to break it out and make use of it's words.

With states closing polling locations, growing voter ID laws and greater purges of voter rolls, the assault on Americans rights to vote nationwide shows that we should enforce paragraph 2 of the 14th amendment right now.

It is about time to use the tools given to us in order to fight off voter suppression. And make no mistake,the right wing of the Republican party is imposing greater suppression on voters in this year's important election than ever before.

The 14th Amendment was written to protect the newly emancipated slaves after the Civil War. 

Section 2:

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv

We may want to add female voters to this paragraph at some point too. Regardless of this ancient wording, we need to wield this power against states like Louisiana which is now trying to tell voters they cannot vote by mail using an absentee ballot unless they have a doctor's note showing a positive coronavirus test.

Or in Ohio where legislators proposed a measure to keep the Secretary of State from sending out request forms to vote by mail even though they have been doing so for years. This same type of law is being proposed in Georgia too. Other states such as Iowa are up to the same kind of trickery.

It's just a red state play in order to keep the clown of a president, and the Republicans in power during their last dying gasp of breath for the party to stay alive. There's not enough people in the country who actually like the platform anymore, so instead they'll cheat in order to win.

These types of laws, trickery, and shenanigans, should not be put up with anymore. And the second paragraph of the 14th amendment is the way in which we have been empowered to defend EXACTLY this type of thing from ever happening in our country. 

I'd venture to bet once the red states start losing their representatives in Congress they might decide to change their ways.

I'd suggest Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats get on the ball and begin to use the toolkit which they have been given by our forefathers in order to defend the citizens of this country, otherwise the Democrats are no better than the Republicans.

When will our government work for the people instead of always working against us? I suppose it would help if more people in this country became educated about things like this instead of what the Kardashians are up to today. I don't hold out much hope for that to happen, but it would be nice if our legislators would do their fucking job. They know better.

I'm getting sick of having to write about politics every day, that's not really what this blog was supposed to be, but it is what it is. Hopefully in the future I will be able to write about something else.