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In reply to the discussion: 'The 19th Amendment was a bad idea': The far-right's wish list for extreme voter suppression [View all]Scrivener7
(59,657 posts)Their great talent is circumventing the Constitution.
Exhibit A: the SAVE act. That will skim off a good percentage of women voters if it passes. Succeed or fail, they will use their unlimited money to come up with something else to take rights from another tranch of women. As with abortion rights, they will chip away around the edges for as long as it takes to achieve their goal. They always play the long game and, as I'm sure you can see, they're testing tactics that were used successfully, despite the Constitution, for generations in the south to prevent black people from voting.
I agree that this will be more difficult to do than trashing abortion rights, and you may be right that it is impossible. But they will certainly try, and we will certainly need to fight their attempts.
I put nothing past them or the American people, and I can no longer sit back in the certainty that my rights will hold.
And an aside, that asshole died in 2021.