“The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit the use of the landmark law to force states to draw electoral districts favorable to minority voters.” — AP News
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The Supreme Court appears poised to deliver yet another win for the US Constitution by striking down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that prohibits race-based discrimination when drawing legislative district maps. America no longer has a problem when it comes to voters of certain races being disenfranchised, and you can tell it’s not an issue by how great race relations are in America right now.
The Voting Rights Act was passed back when America was a far more racist country. These days, race only ever comes up in fun, joking ways. Like when the president shares a meme of the Speaker of the House wearing a sombrero (to signal how much the president loves Latinos). Or when young Republican Party leaders praise Hitler, call Jews liars, and joke about sending their opponents to the gas chamber (totally innocent examples of a popular Gen Z ironic humor trend called “Nazi-maxing”). Or when that same group uses slurs like “n***uh” and “n***a” 251 times in a group chat (clearly meant as terms of endearment; the only “hard R” conservatives use is the “R” in “Republican”).
If anything, America had gone too far the other way and was starting to be racist against white people. Thankfully, Donald Trump put a stop to that by ending DEI hiring practices once and for all. Now, corporations and government agencies are taking jobs away from Black and brown people and giving them to white men. And if that isn’t a sign America is on the right track with racism, then I don’t know what is.
The Voting Rights Act was designed to protect voting rights for people of all races, as enshrined by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. That meant that states couldn’t use gerrymandering to disenfranchise voters of a certain race. But to correct for this, states would need to consider race when drawing congressional maps. Therefore, it would actually be racist to prevent states from drawing racist congressional maps. And if that sounds like circular reasoning, then you clearly aren’t as well-versed in the ins and outs of the Constitution as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He’s a shining example of how to make level-headed decisions regardless of the impact it might have on people of your same race.
Striking down the Voting Rights Act will finally enable states to run elections without the burden of federal overreach. For example, elections are very expensive to run, and taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill. Now, states will be free to levy a poll tax on voters to cover the cost of election infrastructure. If voters have to pay $5,000 to vote in state and federal elections, that’ll only ensure that they’ll treat the process with the seriousness it deserves.
Along those same lines, states will also be able to ensure that only voters who have attained the level of education required to make informed decisions at the ballot box are allowed to cast a vote. They’ll be able to prescreen voters with important questions like “Who won the Masters in 1980?” or “What’s your favorite Lee Greenwood song?”
Once this law is struck down, states will finally have free rein to redraw their congressional maps as they see fit. If, from now on, voters exclusively elect white male Republicans, that’s just proof of who voters want running the country. And if you don’t like your choices, you’re always welcome to stay home. Besides, if you’re not willing to cough up five grand and recite the lyrics to “God Bless the USA” from memory while swearing on a Trump Bible, then you clearly didn’t deserve to vote in the first place.
