I couldn't believe Missouri's own Senator Josh Hawley and his Twitter post today:
"MLB & the giant woke corporations keep telling Biden’s big lie about Georgia & election integrity. They want to run this country. They’ve been coddled by government for too long. We need to bust them up. Starting next week, I’ll introduce a trust busting agenda for 21st century."
Yes, corporations want to run America, all right. It's why they give Republicans hundreds of millions of dollars to put them in office. It's why and how we got the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, opening up our elections to yet more big, big money. Suddenly, the GOP is threatened because--whaddya' know?--Americans poured out to vote and their Orange Man lost the 2020 election. So now, those same Republicans in Georgia and 42 other states are trying to put into place laws to keep us, Americans, citizens, from voting. They and their ideas and policies are so unpopular, Republicans have found they can't get elected or re-elected unless or until they have fewer of us voting. So Jim Crow and more, here we go. Fortunately, some few corporate leaders have stood up and said they won't tolerate it. Consequently, suddenly Josh Hawley and the Republicans are against those corporations.
Senator Mitch McConnell had the nerve to come out and say the corporations can send their money but they have to just shut up, otherwise. Nearly unbelievable chutzpah from the lot of them. Well, America, we cannot let these vote suppression laws stand, as we know. We must end the filibuster in Congress and then pass the For the People Act to do away with gerrymandering vote districts, end dark money in politics and more. We must give power back to the people.
