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Chofunikira choyamba cha Republican Party yamasiku ano ndikukhazikitsa kampeni yayikulu kwambiri yopondereza ovota kuyambira pakubwezeretsanso Ntchito Yomanganso pambuyo pa 1876. Mofanana ndi Confederacy yomwe inayambiranso zaka 150 zapitazo, GOP ikudzipereka kwambiri ku ulamuliro wa azungu kusiyana ndi chirichonse chomwe chiri pafupi ndi "munthu m'modzi, voti imodzi" demokalase.
Kusiyana kwakukulu pakati pa nthawiyo ndi tsopano ndikuti - makamaka chifukwa cha kusintha kwa chiwerengero cha anthu - olimbikitsa ulamuliro wa ndale masiku ano akuwopa kuti izi ndizovuta. mwayi wotsiriza kuti ntchito yawo yaulamuliro ichitike. Senator wa ku Texas Ted Cruz anali wosayankhula. Polankhula pa njira yoyitanitsa anthu opanga malamulo a GOP, adachenjeza kuti ngati Kwa Anthu Act lamulo la ufulu wovota tsopano Nyumba ya Seneti isanakhale lamulo, "GOP sidzapambananso zisankho kwa mibadwomibadwo."
Sikuti atsogoleri apamwamba a GOP okha omwe amawona zinthu motere. Chikhulupiriro chakuti dziko "monga momwe amadziwira" lili pachiwopsezo chopezekapo chikudzaza maziko a GOP, makamaka Akhristu oyera a Evangelical. A posachedwa Kafukufuku wochitidwa ndi wofufuza wamkulu waku Republican adafunsa ovota ngati akuganiza kuti ndale ndi "kukhazikitsa mfundo zabwino zapagulu" kapena "kuwonetsetsa kuti dziko likukhalabe momwe tikudziwira." Ndi 25% yokha ya aku Republican omwe adanena kuti ndale ndi mfundo. Pafupifupi theka ananena kuti ndi za kupulumuka.
Izi si nkhani zabodza. Trump atapambana chisankho chapurezidenti waku Republican wa 2016, wanzeru wanzeru Avik Roy adasiya kuthamangitsa chifukwa chake: "Anzeru ndi andale okonda kusamala ... anali ndi malingaliro akuti ovota anali nafe pazafilosofi, kusamala zachuma. Mโchenicheni, phata la mphamvu yokoka la Republican Party ndi utundu wa azungu.โ
Pambuyo pa kutayika kwa a Trump mu 2020, makamaka kwa masiku angapo pambuyo poti a Trump akugwedeza mbendera ya Confederate ataukira Capitol, akatswiri ena amaganiza kuti GOP idzitalikirana ndi mabodza am'mutu komanso kuyera kopanda manyazi.
Koma mโmalo mwake, chipanichi chakwera pawiri.
LEAVE NO BLACK VOTE YOSAVUTIKA
The "maliseche mphamvu gwira"Lamulo lopondereza ovota lomwe GOP yangodutsa kumene ku Georgia ndiye chitsanzo chawo. Arizona ndiye chandamale chawo chotsatira, ndipo atsogoleri a GOP akuyembekeza kutsatira zoletsa zofananira m'maiko ena ambiri. Mphamvu iliyonse yomwe ili mumsewu wa Conservative ili m'bwalo, monga momwe adanenera Nicholas Riccardi ndi Michael Biesecker kwa Associated Press: โZoletsa kuvota tsopano zikuonedwa ngati mkangano wandale kapena wa imfa, ndipo ndewuyi yathetsa nkhani zachi Republican monga kuchotsa mimba, ufulu wamfuti ndi kuchotsera msonkhoโฆ zimawoneka ngakhale pakati pa magulu amene alibe chidwi pa mkangano wovota. .โ Iwo anapitiriza kutchula ena mwa magulu omwe akugwira nawo ntchito: otsutsa kuchotsa mimba Susan B. Anthony List, "boma laling'ono" -lolunjika pa FreedomWorks, Heritage Foundation, ndi Family Research Council.
Komabe kamvekedwe ka kusimidwa kumadutsa magawo okonzekera mapiko oyenera. Ndipo pazifukwa zomveka. Arizona ndi Georgia, akuti anali otetezeka m'gawo lawo, onse adapita ku Biden mu 2020. Kutayika kwa Republican m'magawo awiri a Georgia adapatsa a Democrats kulamulira Nyumba ya Senate ndikupatsanso malamulo a ufulu wovota mwayi kuti akhale lamulo. Mphamvu zomwe zikupitilira komanso zopindulitsa zomwe zapambana zomwe zidachitika kale (ndime ya American Rescue Plan, mwachitsanzo) zikuwonetsa kuti 2021 sangawone kubwereza kwa tsoka la 1876. M'malo mwake, titha kuwona malamulo omwe amamanga ndikukulitsa "Kukonzanso Kwachiwiri" ufulu wachibadwidwe ndi ufulu wovota wa 1964-65.
Mlingo wa mphamvu uli pafupifupi wofanana; dziko lili pa phiri. Zomwe wamanzere adzachita zidzasintha. Kodi US idzaponyedwa kumbuyo ku "Jim Crow atavala zovala zatsopano?โ Kapena kodi mphamvu zokwanira zitha kukhazikitsidwa kuti zitheke njira yopita ku demokalase yamitundumitundu, yokhala ndi kuthekera konse kwa kusintha kosinthika komweko?
Ndewu pazaka ziwiri kapena zinayi zikubwerazi m'malo antchito, m'madera, ndi m'masukulu, ku Congress komanso m'bokosi lovota, zidzasankha momwe zinthu zikuyendera.
Nkhondo yofunika kwambiri m'masabata amtsogolo ndi pa filibuster.
ATSANKHO AMAFUNA FILIBUSTER
GOP ikufunika filibuster kuti aletse For the People Act, otchedwa Brennan Center for Justice "njira yofunika kwambiri yosinthira demokalase m'zaka zopitilira theka." Zotsatira zake (zambiri Pano) "Kukhazikitsa malamulo adziko kuti awonetsetse kuti nzika zonse zoyenerera zili ndi ufulu wovota komanso kuthekera kowerengera mavoti ...
The For the People Act yakhalapo kale Anadutsa Nyumbayo, ndipo wadziwitsidwa mu Senate ngati S.1. Ndi ma Democrat omwe akuwongolera bungweli, biluyo ndiyotheka kupeza mavoti ambiri. Koma ma Republican amatsutsidwa mogwirizana, ndipo pansi pa malamulo a Senate apano, ali ndi zida zoletsa ambiri a Democratic. Ochepa a 41 Senators atha kugwiritsa ntchito filibuster kuti aletse kuti biluyo isabweretse voti. Sayeneranso kuwonekera kuti achite izi: Amatha kungoyimba foni, kunena kuti akufuna kupanga filibuster - ndi zimenezo.
Kuthana ndi zoletsa zotsutsana ndi demokalase, olimbikitsa ufulu wovota ndi chilungamo chamitundu, makamaka omenyera ufulu wachikuda ndi ogwira ntchito, akufuna kuti a filibuster achotsedwe kwathunthu kapena aletsedwe poganizira za ufulu wachibadwidwe kapena malamulo okhudza kuvota.
Opanga malamulo a GOP ndi makina onse akumanja akumanja akulira moyipa. Amapereka filibuster ngati gawo lopatulika la US Constitutional system, lopangidwa kuti liteteze ufulu wa demokalase.
M'malo mwake, zolemba zoyambira dziko sizimatchula za filibuster kapena njira ina iliyonse yomwe ingalole ochepa a Senators kuletsa malamulo. Palibe chilichonse chotere chomwe chidachitika kwazaka makumi angapo zoyambirira za dzikolo. Filibuster idasinthika patsogolo pa Nkhondo Yachikhalidwe, molimbikitsidwa ndi katswiri wamkulu waukapolo wa Senate, John C. Calhoun. Zinayamba kugwiritsidwa ntchito kwambiri mu nthawi ya Jim Crow monga maseneta akumwera ankafuna kugonjetsa mabilu a ufulu wachibadwidwe. Mu 1917, Nyumba ya Senate inavomereza "Chigamulo cha 22," kufotokoza kufunika kwa anthu akuluakulu (poyamba mavoti 67, omwe tsopano ndi 60) kuti athetse mkangano ndikubweretsa voti. M'zaka makumi angapo zotsatira, mabilu a ufulu wachibadwidwe okha ndi omwe amangoperekedwa kwa filibuster - kotero palibe yomwe idadutsapo. Malamulo ena onse adakwera kapena kugwera pa mavoti ambiri (kupatula mapangano ndi kusintha kwa Constitutional).
Mu 2017, a GOP adalimbikitsa chinyengo china pakusankhana kwawo. GOP adagwiritsa ntchito a "kujambula" (kuyimitsidwa) kwa filibuster kulamula kuti adutse msonkho wa $ 1.5 thililiyoni kwa olemera ndi kuyesa kwawo kuchotsa Obamacare (komwe kunalephera ndi voti imodzi).
Koma pamene โLast Stand for White Christian Americaโ yalembedwa pa mbendera yanu, kusankhana mitundu ndi chinyengo ndi nkhani yeniyeni. Mitch McConnell, wowona, akulonjeza kuti kudzakhala "nyengo yozizira ya nyukiliya" mu Senate ngati a Democrat akhudza tsitsi pamutu wa filibuster.
AKANIKIRANI PA KUKHALA KWA DEMOKRASI
Ndipo apa ndi pamene zimakhala zovuta.
Nyumba iliyonse ya Democrat idavotera kuti ipereke For the People Act, ndipo ma Senator ambiri a Democratic amathandiziranso. Koma osachepera awiri - Joe Manchin waku West Virginia ndi Kyrsten Sinema waku Arizona - samachirikiza zonse zomwe amagawira ndipo amalimbikitsa kulolerana kwamtundu wina ndi aku Republican. Awiriwo akutsutsa lingaliro la filibuster reform. Ena kumbali ya Democratic omwe ndi ofunda pa For the People Act anthu akusesa nawonso akusiya. Ambiri akufuna kungobwerera ku "kulankhula filibuster" - kutanthauza kuti ma Seneti ayenera kupitiriza kulankhula pansi pa Senate kuti aletse bilu kubwera kudzavota m'malo mongowonetsa kuti ali ndi mavoti 41 kapena kuposerapo otsutsa. Izi zitha kuyika zovuta kwa iwo omwe amawombera ndikuwunikira kuwala kwa kutsekeka kwawo komanso zifukwa zomwe zatsalira. Koma zikadasiyabe kuthekera kwawo kuletsa malamulo a ufulu wovota.
Ufulu wovota komanso omenyera ufulu wa demokalase akhazikitsa atolankhani m'bwalo lamilandu lomwe akufuna kuti a Seneti a Democrats achite chilichonse chomwe chingatheke kuti aletse kulepheretsa ochepa a Senate ndikukankhira For the People Act kumapeto. Omenyera chilungamo pamtundu wa Grassroots ndi akuluakulu osankhidwa akuda m'magulu onse akuyendetsa ntchitoyi, ndipo gulu lalikulu la azungu mu utsogoleri wa demokalase adalumphira. Zachindunji kampeni ikuchitika ku Manchin ndi Sinema. Mayeserowa ali ndi mphamvu ndipo pali zizindikiro kuti akuwononga.
Pankhani iyi, monganso ena ambiri, malo asintha kuyambira nthawi ya Trump isanachitike. Chenjezo lomwe lidawonetsedwa ndi ma Democrat apamwamba pankhani yolimbana ndi a Republican (kuchenjeza pano kukhala nthawi yachifundo) tsopano likuchepa. Othandizira am'mbuyomu a chiyanjanitso akuwerenga kuchokera mulemba lina. Popereka ulemu pamaliro a John Lewis a Barack Obama adatcha filibuster "zotsalira za Jim Crow," ndipo adapempha kuti athetsedwe ngati pakufunika kubwezeretsa ufulu wovota. Purezidenti Biden adati mumsonkhano wake woyamba wa atolankhani kuti filibuster "akuzunzidwa kwambiri," komanso kuti "anali wokonzeka kuganizira" kuthetsa kwathunthu ngati GOP ikupitirizabe kulepheretsa.
Mawu awa okha sangachite, komabe. Apa ndipamene mayendedwe athu amalowera. Kuchuluka kwa ovota mu Novembala komanso kupambana kotsogozedwa ndi a Black mu zisankho za Senate ya Georgia zinali zofunika kwambiri popatsa Biden utsogoleri ndi a Democrats kulamulira Senate. Ntchito yolimba kuti izi zitheke zidachitika chifukwa cha zotsatira, osati zongolankhula. Chifukwa chake aliyense kuyambira Purezidenti mpaka pansi akuyenera kuzindikiridwa. Rev. Al Sharpton anaziyika motere:
"Tonse mu utsogoleri wa ufulu wachibadwidwe timadzipereka ku ndondomeko ndi malamulo ndi zifukwa, osati pazandale za anthu. Ife sitili mu izo. Tikufuna kusintha dziko. Ndipo ngati palibe umboni wotsimikizirika wosonyeza kuti tikuchita zimenezo, sikuli mโlingaliro lathu kukhala nawo mwaukali.
โKukakamiza komwe titi tiike pa Sinema ndi Manchin kukutcha [filibuster] kusankhana mitundu ndipo akunena kuti kwenikweni akuchirikiza tsankho. Chifukwa chiyani akwatiwa ku chinthu chomwe chili ndi zotsatira zake?"
KULUMIKIRANI UFULU WA MAVOTA NDI KUSINTHA KWA CHUMA
Chofunika kwambiri, mawu amphamvu akugwirizanitsa ufulu wovota ku kusintha kwachuma ndi ndondomeko zina zomwe dziko likufunikira. Rev. William Barber, wapampando wa gulu la Poor Peopleโs Campaign, akufotokoza kuti:
"Ndinanena izi kwa oyang'anira a Biden ndipo ndinanena kwa a Democrats, simungakhale otsimikiza za kusankhana mitundu, ndiye kuti simupeza malipiro amoyo. Ndipo simudzalandira malipiro amoyo ... ndi chisamaliro chaumoyo ngati simukukankhira ndikulimbana ndi kuponderezedwa kwa ovota. Ngati simungathe kuthandizira kuchotsa filibuster, musandiuze kuti mumamukonda John Lewis. John Lewis ankafuna malipiro a moyo, ndipo ankafuna ufulu wovota. "
Pali phunziro kwa omenyera ufulu wa anthu onse munjira ya Rev. Barber. Kumenyera chilungamo pakati pa mafuko ndikuyendetsa kampeni yomenyera ufulu wovota ndikupereka mwayi wamakhalidwe abwino komanso nkhonya zandale kuti athe kuthetsa filibuster kukhala kotheka kwenikweni. Ndipo popeza filibuster ndiye chida chomwe ochita kusankhana mitundu akufuna kugwiritsa ntchito osati kungoletsa ufulu wa demokalase koma kuletsa mfundo zosintha pazachuma, chisamaliro chaumoyo, kusintha kwanyengo, ndi zina zambiri, ndikumenyera chilungamo kwamitundu komwe kumayambitsa pazantchito zonse za chilungamo cha anthu.
Ndime yopambana ya For the People Act ndiyomwe ili pachimake cha zomwe zikupita patsogolo. Ndizofulumira, ndipo zimatha kupambana.
A Mgwirizano waukulu wa mabungwe oposa 150 kuyambira ku Working Families Party ndi Communication Workers of America mpaka March for Our Lives, Planned Parenthood ndi Color Of Change yaitanitsa "Kwa Anthu Sabata la Ntchito" April 5-9. Zambiri zitha kupezeka Pano.
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