Impossible?

By Sniffles

Well, folks, it's the last day of 2020 and good riddance, right? Except for Joe Biden's victory over Benedict Donald, it's been a pretty terrible year. And who knows what 2021 will hold? The Republicans are continuing to behave like idiots, but the reason surely has to be what we're seeing in Georgia.

Already, 2.8 million Georgians have voted in the US Senate runoff. This is unheard of. And Republicans are worried that that high turnout may sink them — not to mention the fact that GOP Senator David Perdue has had to go into COVID quarantine, sidelined for the last weekend of campaigning. (Will he show up when Benedict Donald does his "show" in Dalton on Monday? Stay tuned.)

Whatever happens, it's clear that in Georgia, as at the national level, the Republicans' anti-democratic antics have ended up biting them in the butt. Think about it: If you accept the Georgia GOP's racist assertion that they had to clean the electoral rolls of unreliable, unverifiable voters — well, maybe they have. And maybe it's working against them in these Senate races.

Maybe, just maybe, the Republicans have disenfranchised voters who don't turn out often, who pay rent instead of mortgages, who move a lot, and who live in high-minority districts. So who's left? Given Georgia's demographic shifts, it's voters in the same high-minority districts but who own homes, hold jobs, are highly informed, and turn out regularly. And we have to believe that these are the people who are lining up to vote in the Georgia specials.

Wouldn't it be great if the GOP's new version of Jim Crow ended up electing Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock? As Cinderella's Fairy Godmother said, impossible things are happening every day. We cats wish you a Happy New Year, and we PURR.