There is a history and a methodology to voter disenfranchisement in America. So the next time you hear one anyone claim that “voting doesn’t matter, why even bother,” please understand that not only is such advicewrong, but through inaction, disaffected voters who refuse to vote are actually helping to elect regressive right-wing politicians…just as Paul Weyrich knew
Civil Rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr, Fannie Lou Hamer, the Black Panthers, and James Chaney all understood the importance of registering people and getting them to the polls to vote. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise: Voting still matters. It always has
I remember the beginning of this horror in the 1980s. The religious takeover and Republican dirty-tricks.
What’s worse is that Republicans have been caught admitting repeatedly that voting laws supposedly intended to reduce election fraud are actually meant to skew elections in their favor. This has happened again and again and
The cries of election fraud are known to be a lie. They are doing their best to make America a one-party system with sham elections that have no meaning because the result’s a foregone conclusion.
VOTER ID LAWS AND VOTER ROLL PURGES ARE HOW REPUBLICANS CHEAT. THEY’VE BEEN DOING IT EVER SINCE GEORGE W. BUSH WAS “ELECTED”
REPUBLICANS KNOW THAT THEY CANNOT WIN ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD SO THEY CHEAT WITH VOTER ID LAWS, AND VOTER ROLL PURGES, AND BY CLOSING POLLING PLACES IN PREDOMINANTLY BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS.
The Paradox Machine 