Major League Baseball — doing its part for the fascist takeover of American political culture

03 April 2021

You heard that Major League Baseball . . .

. . . pulled its 2021 All Star game out of Georgia. The League reasoned that Georgia's new voting law is racist.

I am sure the MLB reached its decision after its band of attorneys read all of the law's 95 pages and carefully evaluated the statute's real-world implications.

And thus, naturally — given that the MLB is 'woke' and Georgia is 'not' — state recompense to the social credit-demanding Corporate Oligarchy must be paid.

Whether Georgia's new law is actually racist in motivation or impact . . .

. . . rather than a routine form of partisan power-grabbing, appears to be unimportant.

The Oligarchy will have its say.

Voters be darned.

Sounder and more democracy-preserving minds . . .

. . . would process these friction-inducing issues more like Professor Glenn Loury does in the below video:

I think that, if all you've got is that I . . . want to have signature verification of a certain sort, before I accept an absentee ballot —

or I want to have strict limits on who can collect ballots — that they did not themselves cast, and they bring them to the electors to present the votes of other people — and I want limits on that —

or I want people — as I would if they are opening a bank account or getting on an airplane — to present a valid ID before they can cast a ballot — and I'm quite prepared to help anybody and everybody to get it —

to assume that my motivation is racist is, I think, slanderous.

It could be. Of course, it could be racist.

[Yet] Even in an all-black country, there will be debates about how many weeks before the actual election date can you cast a ballot, what credentials would be presented at the ballot [place] to certify that you are authorized to vote.

Those are legitimate questions.

Pertinently, Professor Loury begins and ends the above analysis with a metaphor

It involves locking one's bicycle up as a matter of customary procedure, regardless of the crime rate in whatever neighborhood one is in.

Loury's point thus being that some of us take precautions against potential harm, no matter its statistical prevalence wherever we are.

This caution-displaying trait has nothing to do with racism. It is just a way of coping with potentially undesirable uncertainties.

Notice here that identifying potential sources of some kinds of harm — and coming up with means to protect against them — are, reportedly, distinguishing characteristics of 'conservative' minds.

Thus, Loury reasons (at 18:15) that the actual statistical prevalence of voting fraud is beside the point. Just as is it with consistently locking one's bicycle up, whatever neighborhood one is in:

"I'll feel better locking my bicycle, do you mind?"

These are inherently partisan psychological issues, not necessarily racist ones. Assuming — without more indicatively solid evidence, as the MLB has with regard to Georgia's new statute — is, indeed, a slander of sorts.

Being conservatively minded, as Loury's locked bicycle metaphor indicates, is not a crime. If it were a criminal offense, perhaps half the planet's human population would have to be locked up.

If non-racist 'conservatism' is not a crime . . .

. . . what business did the MLB have doing what it has done to Georgia?

Is it really Oligarchic Corporatism's place to tell the American public how to vote?

From rationality's perspective

Try defending corporate control of American voting — via its exercise of coercive influence on local and regional economies — in ways that remain consistent with Democracy's fundamental definition.

The moral? — Furthering corporate Oligarchy's ownership of the US public is not societal progress

Vacuously brained wokeness is accelerating the United States' totalitarian bent.

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Major League Baseball — doing its part for the fascist takeover of American political culture