The Zombie Party

 Everyone knows that although zombies are already dead, they are really hard to kill.  They continue to roam the earth, looking for brains to eat.

The Republican Party is a minority party and has been for some years, yet it keeps tottering along and wins many elections.  How does this happen?

Republicans cheat.  

They suppress votes.  You can see this happening now with Trump’s attempt to deny the votes from cities with substantial Black populations.  

They gerrymander.  The House would have a much larger Democratic majority except for an incredible amount of gerrymandering.  And yes, both parties do it, but you will find far fewer Democratic gerrymandered districts.

They screw around with who can vote.  After Florida voters approved an initiative giving the vote to prisoners who had served their sentences, the legislature came up with a new wrinkle that they couldn’t vote unless they had paid off all of their debts.  I have no doubt that the Republican legislature in Pennsylvania will try to walk back no excuse mail-in ballots after Biden’s victory in the state.

They screw around with the ballots themselves.  No intelligent person believes that Trump-appointed Postmaster General DeJoy messed up the mail delivery by accident.

They make up false reasons to overturn legitimate results.  I don’t think that needs further explanation.

They make up stuff in campaigns.  Biden a socialist?  Biden too left?  Are you kidding?  Or how about the Q-Anon craziness?

They don’t play by rules.  Do you really think the treatment of Garland by the Senate was in the spirit of a democracy?  Or the appointment of a Supreme Court judge one week before an election?

And the system is rigged.

The Electoral College benefits small states.  As everyone knows, the popular vote did not count in 2000, in 2004, and in 2016.  If the popular vote decided the presidency, Trump would never have been elected.

And the Senate.  Wyoming, with roughly 600,000 people, elects two.  California, with roughly 40,000,000, elects two.  

And the Supreme Court, where five justices can decide that corporations are people and can contribute unlimited amounts of money to candidates.

And so the Zombie Party continues to attack our democracy.  You’ve seen enough movies to know that it is an arduous fight to achieve victory over zombies, but we must not rest.