Voters Are Not Imbeciles

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“Speaker Johnson, we did not vote for the May 14, Manhattan court shame.”

I wish I was a speck of dust and hear what community organizers say in voting workshops, and the importance of registering to vote in particular.  I assume they spend time on bare bones like voting early, by mail, ballot boxes (if Georgia Genius doesn’t get rid of them altogether) and the secrecy of the vote.

That secrecy is founded on a free and functioning mind. Because it is free, the boss cannot blackmail workers. Because it is free, the voter is under no obligation to vote for the present governor or senator. Any elected official that thinks voters will ‘follow the leader’ wherever he goes, even down a cliff, believes they are imbeciles.

House Speaker Michael Johnson and the posse that appeared at the courthouse on 14 May to be proxy for Trump - since he cannot say things because of gag orders - think voters are imbeciles. Most political analysts believe it was a group interview for U.S. Vice-President. Ambition. No problem with that, but there is, if elected officials forget that voters sent them to Washington, based on certain deliverables. I will do one, two and three if you vote for me. For Donald Trump, it will be getting rid of Joe Biden.

It’s a free country, but House Speaker Michael Johnson and the red tie posse cannot impose another deliverable on voters, and expect them to nod in agreement. Because they are not imbeciles, they won’t allow men they sent to Washington to make them accomplices to May 14, where Johnson and co. stood in front of microphones and rubbished the American justice system.

It will be tantamount to saying voters are imbeciles. They don’t have a free and functioning mind that believes in ‘let justice take its course.’ Judges, prosecutors and lawyers are, the justice system. Come November 2024, voters will show Donald Trump and Speaker Johnson that they are not imbeciles. They might be poor or don’t ‘live’ on the internet, but they have a free and functioning mind, which says they can de-vote or un-vote men that regard the American justice system, as thrash.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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