Opposition to electoral reform laws like the one recently enacted in Georgia is rooted in the idea that minorities are not smart enough to understand the basic rules, said Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky., In “Angle of Ingraham” on Friday -market.
“All of these proposals are aimed at making voting easier, but difficult to cheat,” Paul told host Laura Ingraham. “I was involved in this. I communicated with people in all 50 state legislatures, I called them on the phone. I spoke to the conservative ALEC [American Legislative Exchange Council] group about it, and now we’ve approved it in Kentucky and actually we’ve had more early voting days added, so it’s easier to vote, but you vote in person.
“There is nothing about Jim Crow in that. In fact, what is very insulting and really pisses me off is that they are suggesting that people of certain races are not able to comply with rules, attend or have a driver’s license or find out.”
Paul said that people who implicitly believe that certain groups would be disenfranchised by stipulations such as obtaining an identity card are “very racist in their thinking”.
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“[They think] there are certain groups of our people who are unable to follow the basic rules, “he continued.” I don’t think it’s true. I think the trend lines for all the different electoral disputes have been good in our country for 20 or 30 years and all these bills do is try to make it easier to vote, but more difficult to cheat. “
Meanwhile, according to Paul, companies that speak out against this legislation, like Delta and Coca-Cola did in Georgia, are victims of “a racketeering scheme that has been going on for a long time.
“Jesse Jackson would do that years ago,” said Paul. “He would protest in front of a large corporation that was not doing anything wrong until they gave money to his organization and then the protest would leave the organization.
“This is what they are doing, they think they can intimidate.”
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For his part, Paul recommended that Americans “stay away” from these companies.
“Now, Coca-Cola is telling people to apologize for being white, to apologize for being arrogant, to apologize for all these things that white people are supposed to be doing, and that is a very racist type of philosophy,” he said. he. “It sparked a kind of critical race theory, but now it has infected a public company, and when they start saying things like that, they are actually going against what their mandate is. Their mandate is to maximize profit, but now they’re moving off 40% of the country who don’t really want to be woken up and informed that we’re horrible people. “