lol, all of you Alabamans are now property of the state. You fucking ignorant dipshits that supported these shits.
There are plenty of us that didn't vote for these congressmen and senators. Even though the representatives for my area voted YES on this bill, I didn't vote for a single one of them. However, just like it is for a Republican in a predominantly blue area, my vote doesn't usually account for much as the Republican usually wins. What's interesting is that Alabama arguably has some interesting issues in regard to representation in its local government. If I remember correctly, the bill passed 25 to 7. Alabama only has about 4.9 million residents, and nearly a million of them are in the Birmingham metro area, which is a predominantly blue area of the state. Around 50% of the people voted for Doug Jones in 2017, and around 40% of the people voted NAY to an anti-abortion amendment. (We'll get to that amendment in a moment.) So, why is it that if we have around 40-50% of the state's (active) voters siding more with liberal politics that there are only 23% of the Alabama Senate seats allocated to Democrats (8 out of 35)?
Now, you express disappointment in Alabama voters, but I think people should've started complaining long before HB314 passed. So, back during the 2018 elections, I posted about
the anti-abortion amendment that was on Alabama's 2018 ballot two times (
1,
2), and no one really seemed to raise a fuss. However, if you read the text, it's pretty easy to see how its a precursor to what was signed into law just last week. I mean... the writing was on the wall, and now... we're in an even bigger mess. Which is why we should have been complaining this much when the amendment passed six months ago.