Yes, that's just bullsh*t

 

I rarely use profanity, here blogging or in real life, but when I saw this Daily Mail headline, the first word that came to mind, and to my lips, was the epithet associated with bovine excrement.

Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and officials slam 'political' lawsuit over their voting rights bill and Trump says it's more proof the 'radical left' is 'politicizing the DOJ'

There's a reason that Major League Baseball moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver.  There's a reason that major corporation boards and heads have been denouncing the law.  There's a reason civil rights groups are suing Georgia over the bill.

The reason is that the bill is discriminatory and seeks to limit, restrict, and make more difficult voting by groups defined by race and social strata as traditionally Democratic.  The groups that voted by mail and in long lines and turned the state on its head by getting President Joe Biden more votes than his opponent.

The reason that the DOJ has filed a lawsuit against the bill is about politics - the dirty kind that the Georgia Republicans are playing because they can't accept that a fair vote didn't go their way.  The way to change minds and votes is to listen to the voters and try to do what they want - that's called representative government.   Georgia Republicans, apparently, want only to represent a certain subset of the Georgia electorate.

And that's bullsh*t in this country.  And that's what Georgia Republicans smell like, because they're swimming in it.