To Fight Or Not
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I was reading the obituary of New Jersey and Georgia pastor and political powerhouse Reginald Jackson and it had a quote that I thought summed up almost everything one can say about the two political parties in the last half-century.
After the Republican-led Georgia State Assembly tried in 2021 to rewrite the state’s election law to, among other things, restrict voting on Sundays — a time when many church attendees go to the polls — he organized a boycott against Georgia-based companies like Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines and Home Depot to pressure them into opposing the change.
The restrictions on Sunday voting were removed, but the law passed with several other elements that Bishop Jackson and his allies opposed, like voter-identification requirements.
That experience left Bishop Jackson skeptical about whether Democrats were ready to fight Republicans on civil rights issues. The party, he told The Times, was “on the right side of an issue, but they are not as committed to the fight as Republicans of the far right are.”
Doesn’t this kind of sum up everything? It’s the encapsulation of bringing a spork to a gun fight, or the Chuck Schumer style of governing. In a vacuum, sure, most Democrats are pretty good on most issues. But how far are they going to go to fight for them? And most importantly, how far will they go to fight Republicans, who we know will happily destroy democracy and every decent thing about this nation to get their way?