Hello jbander,
There is merit in the idea to make required voting law, but I'd have to think long and hard on that before I could back it. And it is a total moot point anyway. Whether or not I support it does not matter. There is no way America is passing such a controversial law with such a slim Democratic majority. So we can forget that idea.
We have just a small advantage. We have to take small steps. We can't assume that conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is just going to go along with a super wish list.
We can't do anything appreciable to stop the gerrymandering, either. That is controlled state by state, and most of the states are under Republican control.
Getting rid of the fillibuster is a double-edged sword. We should go carefully there. If we did that and lost control in 2022, that could be disaster.
No way we are expanding the SCOTUS with such a slim majority. We don't have enough power to do that.
But say somehow we did all those things, and then we attempted to tell conservatives what to think. That's a problem right there. We liberals have no business 'putting together a voice for conservatives.'
But we can still focus on the voter suppression laws. The federal government can make guidelines that could curtail some of what state Republicans are trying to do, and it's shameful some of the obstacles Republicans are blocking the vote with. It's just shameful that Republicans have become anti-voting in the first place. That should be a signal to them to question their motivations. And such honorable measures could even attract the support of some moderate Republicans.