I’ve been carefully watching the news lately. Here in the Lone Star State, the governor has declared another emergency session of the state legislature to pass a voting bill of some sort. The bill didn’t pass in the regular session, nor did it pass in a previous “emergency” session due to lack of a quorum. Democrats in the legislature flew to Washington to keep the necessary quorum away so that the bill does not pass and get sent to the governor for his signature.

I don’t know exactly what’s in the bill. From what I have been able to learn, the bill came up in response to last November’s loss of the Presidency of the United States by Donald Trump. Trump claimed that there was massive election fraud and that there needed to be reforms passed to prevent the same sort of fraud in the future.

From my point of view (seeing what has already passed in other states), the intent of the bill is to see that only the right people go to the polls to vote in the next election.

ONLY THE RIGHT PEOPLE.

Sounds like someone has their nose in the air, not wanting to mingle with the “Great Unwashed”.

Some years ago, I belonged to an organization which I presumed to be open to any and all who would come through the front door until a contemporary of mine stated to my first wife that the organization in question accepted “Only the right people”. It was, in my mind, an elitist attitude. It did not belong in that organization.

Nor does that attitude belong in our political system.

But it’s there.

A bill to see that only the right people have the opportunity to elect our politicians appears to be on its way to being passed if the Democrats in exile in Washington blink and allow the governor his quorum.

Really a damn shame. I liked voting.

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