H.R.1 Continues Democrat Trend of Eroding State Power

I think I've made it abundantly clear that my disappointment with the Republican Party as of late has no bounds, as many prominent Republicans have spent their time peddling false election claims, and the lead-up to Jan. 6 was nothing short of an attempted overthrow of our Constitutional order. My distaste for recent Republican politics has festered this false belief from some that I now side with Democrats. "You've gone to the other side, Calvin?" These sorts of questions illustrate the stupidity in our politics today, and more poignantly the tribalism in them.

Well, I say this because it's again time to criticize Democrats and to point out their decades-long shenanigan-led attempts to undermine our Constitution. The bill has made headlines, but not with the gravity that it should. What the Democrats are trying to do through the For the People Act, H.R. 1, is to expand the unconstitutionality that we witnessed in the 2020 election (other entities besides state legislatures making changes to state election laws) and put it into law. Listen, if you don't like the Constitution, just come out and say it. But they don't and they try to make the bill sound like some type of American folklore, "For the People Act." You see, our politicians are so sweet, and everything they do is obviously in an attempt to help us. We certainly do not deserve these wonderful Democrats in the House (hypocrisy intended).

So what's in the bill and why is it unconstitutional? The bill's intended goal is to federalize national elections by mandating states to provide mail-in voting, set election deadlines, void identification standards, and strip states of their power to gerrymander. It's the federal government saying, "Hey states, take a backseat, we know better than you." It's the Democrats continued way of pretending the 10th Amendment doesn't exist and the continued practice of pushing more power away from individual states and surrendering them to Washington. Let's not forget that Article 1 Section 4 gives the state's legislatures the power of creating election laws. Not the State Supreme Court. Not Congress. But the states. This bill is a spit in the face of all states, Democrat and Republican.

I would highly suggest reading Mike Pence's critique of the piece of legislation.