Biden Wants Americans to Be More Like Republican Heroes

In pushing for a voting rights bill that would benefit Democrats, Biden accidently praises Republicans at the forefront of civil rights

In a speech on Tuesday, President Joe Biden urged Americans to emulate Republicans, not Democrats. Well, OK, I guess I will.

Biden traveled to Atlanta on Tuesday to talk about voting rights. During his speech, he asked Americans if they wanted to be on the side of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (a Republican) or segregationist governor George Wallace (a Democrat); on the side of President Abraham Lincoln (a Republican) or Confederate President Jefferson Davis (a Democrat).

It was clear from the context that he thought Americans should choose the side of MLK and Lincoln. They were obviously the good guys but from the juxtaposition of the choices and his own affiliation with the Democrats, he hoped Americans would assume they were Democrats.

History Tells a Different Story

Like most things said by Biden and his ilk, his speech was full of innuendo, misdirection and outright lies. He hoped that most Americans lacked the basic knowledge of history (unfortunately he’s right) to realize that throughout the march toward civil rights for black Americans, the majority of those leading the charge were Republicans, while the majority of those advocating for segregation were Democrats.

In fact, until the mid-‘60s, the majority of Democrats in Congress opposed civil rights legislation. Biden would like you to forget that he often praised those Democrat congressmen, including those with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. He even praised George Wallace.

Biden’s reason for coming to Georgia this week was predicated on a lie that Georgia has oppressive voting laws that keep black Americans from casting their ballots. Not only is this not true, Georgia in fact has more expansive voting rights for all its citizens than Biden’s home state of Delaware, as well as a number of other Democrat-run states.

One aspect of Georgia’s voting laws that has drawn the ire of Biden and liberals is the requirement to show identification in order to vote. This requirement prevents fraud and protects everyone’s vote but Biden’s side argues that it discriminates against black voters. They make this argument even though surveys show that 73 percent of blacks approve of laws requiring voter ID.

Biden’s Racist Argument

Biden’s arguments on this are based on another lie: That black Americans lack the intelligence or the finances to obtain legal identification and that they can only succeed with the help of the white saviors in the Democrat party.

Not only is Biden’s argument racist, it couldn’t be more wrong. Like the majority of American citizens, black Americans already possess legal identification in the form of a driver’s license. Georgia also allows those without driver’s licenses to obtain free legal identification cards.

Besides, data show that fewer than 10,000 Georgians lack a form of legal ID. Given the ease with which they can obtain this ID, my guess is that most of those people don’t place a high priority on voting.

Biden also twisted the truth about the Georgia law when he said it prohibits people from eating or drinking water while they stand in long lines (the length of the lines was driven mostly by covid social distancing restrictions). What the law does is prohibit politicians and those working for them from distributing food and water at the polling places in an effort to influence the voters (most states already ban politicians from campaigning or distributing literature or gifts near a polling place; this simply extended that). Poll workers can still set up self-serve water stations and people can bring as much food and water with them as they want.

Democrats Push to Control Voting

What Biden and his cronies really desire is putting the Federal government (i.e., Democrats) in charge of election, not just in Georgia but in every state, which potentially violates the Constitution.

The Constitution says that elections for choosing senators and representatives are to be run by each state’s legislature, although Congress can set some rules. In this regard, Congress’ power has always been interpreted to be limited to such things as setting the national election day and the legal voting age. (Choosing the president is another matter – that is handled by each state’s electors.)

In Atlanta Biden pushed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which is labeled as an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act protects the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution which gave black Americans the right to citizenship and the right to vote – both Amendments being passed solely by Republicans; not a single Democrat voted in favor of either amendment.

Democrat politicians in primarily southern states got around these two amendments by passing what became known as Jim Crow laws. These laws created illegal requirements for voting that discriminated mostly against black voters. The Voting Rights Act prohibited those practices.

The John Lewis Act (named for civil rights leader John Lewis of Georgia) would extend the act by changing the violations from prohibiting minority voting to “diluting” minority voting, although exactly what diluting means isn’t clear.

The Act would also require a state to obtain “preclearance” for changing voting laws from the Department of Justice (not Congress) if the state had a certain number of violations to voting procedures in the past. Who determines what the violations are seems to be left up to the DOJ, which seems ripe for all kinds of chicanery – if the party in power doesn’t get their way, I’m sure they’ll be able to find violations that could change the outcome.

For the People Act More For the Democrats

The John Lewis Act is in addition to another voting rights bill called the For the People Act, although it could just as accurately be called the Anti-Trump Act, since it seems primarily directed at preventing Trump or anyone like him from ever being elected again.

The For the People Act is so massive that the online version comes with the warning that it may cause your browser to crash. It has three divisions with a total of 408 sections of laws (many with subsections). This certainly doesn’t feel like it’s something designed for the people to read.

This Act essentially establishes the authority of Congress to stick their noses into state elections, refers any decisions on rules to the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, which is notoriously anti-Trump and anti-Republican, and attempts to codify as standards the special provisions made during covid to allow safe voting. (Eliminating those special provisions is also why many states have been accused of “restricting” voter rights when they were simply returning to pre-2020 standards).

The bill addresses voter registration, voting the same day as registration and establishing early voting, as well as allowing convicted felons to vote, allowing mail-in voting and limiting how states can purge their voter rolls. It also would require presidential and vice presidential candidates to release 10 years of tax returns, makes rules on campaign contributions and spending and changes rules on how districts are drawn for state representation in the House of Representatives. As you might expect, since it is co-sponsored by nearly every Democrat in the House, it heavily favors Democrats.

Both of these bills have passed through the House but are stalled in the Senate with not enough votes to pass, which is why Biden is trying to drum up support for the bills.

Like so many things in politics, this issue has little to do with protecting people’s voting rights – if that was the real issue we’d be spending a lot more time figuring out a way to make the election results auditable, the only way to truly protect us from fraud. Biden and his buddies have little concern for protecting our votes; they simply want to protect their power.

So this would be a great time to let your senators know they should vote against these pretend voting rights bills. After all, Biden has asked us to be more like the Republicans.