Liberal whining isn’t just annoying — in the era of woke capital, it often carries serious financial consequences for regular people. The lies told by Sen. Raphael Warnock and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams about Georgia’s voting reform bill cost their state over $100 million in economic activity from boycotts and the removal of the All-Star Game from Atlanta.
For a state coming out of COVID-19 and badly in need of economic stimulus, this isn’t a trivial loss.
Come 2022, voters ought to remember that Abrams and Warnock are more than willing to engage in liberal grandstanding at the expense of the people they claim to want to represent.
All this started over S.B. 202, a bill passed by the Georgia General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp, with the intent of restoring confidence in the state’s elections. Among the most controversial aspects of the bill was the implementation of a voter ID requirement for absentee voting.
Even though there is no substantial evidence to suggest that voter ID laws suppress turnout — some liberal thought leaders even admitted as much — Warnock and Abrams seized on the voting bill regardless to claim without any basis that it was a racist effort to restore Jim Crow and prevent black people from voting.
National media noticed Warnock and Abrams throwing a fit. Without checking any facts, they ran with the narrative that Georgia Republicans were pushing through a virulently racist law aimed at disenfranchising minorities. Fearful of public backlash, corporations began to issue statements criticizing Georgia state officials. Eventually, this coalesced in the MLB condemning the state and electing to relocate its annual All-Star Game out of Atlanta and to Denver.
Warnock and Abrams used their platforms, and what trust people placed in them, to mislead everyone, all in a ploy to score a few cheap points for the Democratic Party. Everyday Georgians, especially small-business owners in Atlanta who were reeling from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’s lockdown policies, paid dearly for their ideological saber-rattling.
Georgians know that Warnock and Abrams cost their state an All-Star Game. Perhaps this is why the two are trying so hard to distance themselves from past opposition to voter ID laws. Both now claim to have never opposed requiring ID to vote. They are so confident in their ability to lie that they are contradicting their own previous statements that they quite literally made on television.
Warnock has vocally opposed voter ID laws for years, and Abrams made several media appearances during the controversy, explicitly calling ID requirements racist.
Their abrupt reversal is part of a cynical effort to save face ahead of 2022 in the hope that voters forget about their reckless and damaging partisanship.
The politicians we elect to office, regardless of their party affiliation, ought to be primarily concerned with the well-being of their constituents. Through their behavior, both Warnock and Abrams have shown Georgians that getting on television and dunking on Republicans is far more important to them than Georgia’s economy or its citizens.
Policy aside, the inability of these two to put Georgia’s interests first proves that they are undeserving of voter support.
