{"id":510843,"date":"2022-11-16T01:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T01:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:50:13","slug":"dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dems\u2019 voter-suppression oops, private sector to the moon and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36dc66e0f29\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary\/#%E2%80%9CDems_voter-suppression_oops_private_sector_to_the_moon_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Dems\u2019 voter-suppression oops, private sector to the moon and other commentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary\/#Liberal_Dems_Voter-Suppression_Oops\" >Liberal: Dems\u2019 Voter-Suppression Oops<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary\/#Libertarian_Private_Sector_to_the_Moon\" >Libertarian: Private Sector to the Moon<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_GOP_Must_Adapt_on_Voting\" >From the right: GOP Must Adapt on Voting<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary\/#Foreign_desk_Bidens_Huge_China_Task\" >Foreign desk: Biden\u2019s Huge China Task<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dems-voter-suppression-oops-private-sector-to-the-moon-and-other-commentary\/#Tech_watch_%E2%80%98Real_Economy_as_Crazy_as_Crypto\" >Tech watch: \u2018Real\u2019 Economy as Crazy as Crypto<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDems_voter-suppression_oops_private_sector_to_the_moon_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Dems\u2019 voter-suppression oops, private sector to the moon and other commentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Moon_h2O.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Liberal_Dems_Voter-Suppression_Oops\"><\/span>Liberal: Dems\u2019 Voter-Suppression Oops<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats have been consumed by panic about voter suppression,\u201d but, as election results and academic research show, voter-ID laws \u201chave no significant impact on turnout\u201d \u2014 though measures like early voting don\u2019t \u201cinherently tip the scales to Democrats\u201d either, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/11\/15\/voters_were_not_suppressed_in_2022_or_2020_or_2018_148467.html\">explains Bill Scher at RealClearPolitics<\/a>. In the 2020 election, the share of mail ballots jumped to 44%, from 24% in 2016, yet Republicans picked up 13 seats. Meanwhile, Dems, despite their 2020 victories, \u201cconvinced themselves\u201d they couldn\u2019t win without \u201cexpansive\u201d voting-rights legislation that they failed to pass, and Georgia\u2019s voter-ID law drove them to \u201chysteria.\u201d Yet 2022 \u201cturnout nationwide is estimated to be the second highest for a midterm since 1968,\u201d and Georgia\u2019s record for early votes was \u201cshattered.\u201d Upshot: Voter-suppression tools today are \u201cweak\u201d; \u201cturnout machines,\u201d strong.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Libertarian_Private_Sector_to_the_Moon\"><\/span>Libertarian: Private Sector to the Moon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cFollowing 11 years in which the space agency has had no launch capability of its own,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/15\/we-are-going-to-the-moon\/\">cheers Eric Berger at Reason<\/a>, \u201cNASA will soon attempt to fly its huge Space Launch System (SLS) booster for the first time.\u201d No astronauts aboard this time, but the Artemis program aims at \u201ca return to human moon missions.\u201d And it comes \u201cas the agency starts to embrace the commercial space industry.\u201d NASA is shifting \u201cfrom telling industry what to build\u201d to \u201ctelling industry what it wants\u201d and \u201cthen getting out of the way and letting businesses innovate.\u201d Commercial vehicles such as SpaceX\u2019s Starship will take the lead \u201crole in launching and flying human beings to the moon.\u201d Thanks to NASA\u2019s partnership with \u201cprivate visionaries committed to the human future in space, we are going back to the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_GOP_Must_Adapt_on_Voting\"><\/span>From the right: GOP Must Adapt on Voting<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cFor the past two years, every Republican should have been either attempting to beat back the flood of \u2018no excuse\u2019 mail-in ballots saturating swing states, or building up a party network that could adapt to it,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/14\/republican-leaders-have-a-choice-roll-back-early-voting-and-mail-in-ballots-or-learn-to-take-advantage-of-them\/\">fumes Eddie Scarry at The Federalist<\/a>. Early and mail-in voting means \u201celections are h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening for weeks before the designated day for official in-person voting,\u201d leaving \u201ca lot of time for dedicated activists to call or visit the homes of their voters, no matter how unmotivated they are, and tell them that they don\u2019t have to wait at all.\u201d If Republican leaders aren\u2019t going to roll back early and mail-in voting, \u201cthen they\u2019ll have to adapt and develop their own way of pushing their voters to cast ballots for weeks leading up to Election Day. That\u2019s what Democrats are doing and it\u2019s working.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Foreign_desk_Bidens_Huge_China_Task\"><\/span>Foreign desk: Biden\u2019s Huge China Task<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAlthough President Biden says there isn\u2019t a need for another cold war,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/national-security\/3735131-after-the-biden-xi-summit-get-ready-for-a-far-more-active-xi-jinping\/\">argues Bradley A. Thayer at The Hill<\/a>, \u201chis first face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping\u201d must \u201cbe cast into the framework of history.\u201d Xi will now enter a \u201cperiod of great activity akin to Truman\u2019s \u2018100 Days\u2019 in 1947\u201d to forward his goals: \u201cthat China can lead the world\u201d and \u201cthat the party\u2019s principal enemy, the United States, will be defeated and Taiwan conquered.\u201d Thus, \u201cthe world is entering an even more dangerous time,\u201d and \u201cit falls to the Biden presidency\u201d to \u201ccheck China\u2019s ambitious agenda.\u201d It \u201cmust work with Congress to define and explain the struggle with the Chinese Communist Party, to deter Xi\u2019s aggressive stance, and to move forward to defeat his goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tech_watch_%E2%80%98Real_Economy_as_Crazy_as_Crypto\"><\/span>Tech watch: \u2018Real\u2019 Economy as Crazy as Crypto<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a great year for those of us who didn\u2019t have the nerve to invest in crypto,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/topic\/saying-goodbye-to-the-crypto-nerd-utopia\/\">quips Ben Sixsmith at Spectator World<\/a>: With \u201ccrypto giant FTX\u201d bankrupt, non-investors can cry \u201cAt last!\u201d They rightly \u201cnever trusted the utopian claims people made about crypto-currencies.\u201d \u201cNow, it\u2019s easy to gloat. . . . As the modern classic Onion headline goes, \u2018Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him.\u2019\u200a\u201d \u201cStill, we shouldn\u2019t gloat too much.\u201d \u201cBiden, Blair and the WEF \u2014 and the people around them \u2014 thought\u201d FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was \u201cthe kind of chap they wanted to associate themselves with.\u201d So let\u2019s \u201cnot pretend that [crypto] is a deranged alternative to a stable and secure status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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