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Will Americans Still Have The Right To Vote? Will We Still Have Fair Elections? Will We Still Have A Democracy?

1/13/2022

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​WILL AMERICANS STILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE? WILL WE STILL HAVE FAIR ELECTIONS? WILL WE STILL HAVE A DEMOCRACY?

       Dear Cyberarchivist of the future who, while sifting through ancient internet postings from bygone centuries in search of history, has come across this blog chronicling events and observations of typical day-to-day life in the first quarter of the 21st Century AD:
         On this day, January 13, 2022, I live a country currently consisting of the union of fifty states known as the United States of America, generally referred to as the United States or the U.S. or the U.S.A.
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​      We are the strongest, wealthiest country on the planet and for most of the past two centuries - for our country was established in its present constitution only a little over two centuries ago - we have been seen by the rest of the world as a bastion of democracy. We have been admired and looked up to as a model and inspiration for other countries in our freedoms and our rights of self-determination through our fair elections of leaders and officials chosen by the people and for the people.
         But the United States of America is now at an inflection point. Over the years our Supreme Court, from resting on complacency and having become more politicized, has disempowered our country's voting rights law, known as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This fact is barely on the radar of most of the population.
         In 2016 Americans, as our citizens are known, elected to the Presidency an enormously rich and charismatic man of a tyrannical nature named Donald Trump who believed that the United States was him, that what benefited him benefited the nation, and that therefore he was above the law. 
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   Donald Trump demanded from his appointees and the members of his political party unquestioning flattery and praise, and painted anyone who opposed him in the least matter as the enemy of himself and the nation. 
​     Though self-serving and largely inept as a leader, he was loved and adulated with religious fervor by his supporters among the citizenry.
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      And though Donald Trump was defeated by many millions of votes in the next election four years later, so powerful was this man's cult of personality that he succeeded in pushing the lie that the Presidency was stolen from him in a rigged election. He attempted to have the election results in some states overturned, calling state officials in his political party and asking them to change the official vote count. He attempted to coerce members of our nation's highest elected legislative body to refuse to  certify the newly-elected President, Joe Biden.
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      Most of the members of his political party did his bidding. Those who acknowledged Biden's Presidency were punished with Donald Trump's wrath and shunned by the rest of his political party.
It was only by a near miss that no state election results were overturned.
      However on January 6, 2021, two weeks before Donald Trump's successor was to take office, thousands of his followers, at his instigation, attacked the United States Capitol building, the seat of our government, with the idea of overthrowing the government and re-installing Donald Trump as President.
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      The insurrection was put down on that same day, but since that day Donald Trump's hold on our country's elected officials who are members of his political party has grown stronger and the lawmakers in one-third of our states have passed laws to suppress voting rights. 
       On this day President of the United States Joe Biden is urging our country's lawmaking bodies to immediately pass new laws to end voter suppression and to ensure voting rights for all American  citizens. Not one lawmaker of Donald Trump's party will vote for the voting rights laws. Even some members of the President Biden's own party are refusing their support.
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      And so on this day, January 13, 2022, it does not augur well for voting rights protected by law in the United States of America. And even if the right to vote does once more become law, there are at this time no legal guarantees that in the future those in power could not subvert elections and/or overturn fair election results, as Donald Trump and his allies attempted and came too close to doing after the Presidential election of 2020. 
      In fact, there is no guarantee that we Americans, in who we chose as our elected leaders, will not vote our democracy into a dictatorship. 
       And so here is my question for you, Cyberarchivist of the future: Did we?
Reference:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/us/politics/biden-voting-rights-speech-election-subversion.html
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