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ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 04:57 PM Jun 2012

Right-wing PA legislator admits VoterID law is about politics, will help get Romney elected

"Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation – abortion facility regulations – in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."

The statement drew a loud round of applause from the audience. It also struck a nerve among critics, who called it an admission that they passed the bill to make it harder for Democrats to vote — and not to prevent voter fraud as the legislators claimed.

“Instead of working to create jobs and get our economy back on track, Mike Turzai and the Republicans in Harrisburg have been laser focused on a partisan agenda that simply helps their donors and political allies,” said PA Dems spokesman Mark Nicastre.

“Mike Turzai’s admission that Voter ID only serves the partisan interests of his party should be shocking, but unfortunately it isn’t. Democrats are focused on protecting Pennsylvanians’ rights to vote, and we are working hard to ensure that everyone who is eligible to vote can vote this fall.”



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Right-wing PA legislator admits VoterID law is about politics, will help get Romney elected (Original Post) ProfessionalLeftist Jun 2012 OP
They don't even bother to hide it. A generation of hate speech ostracizing Democrats... freshwest Jun 2012 #1
Why should they? They know no one will stop them. ProfessionalLeftist Jun 2012 #2
This has been a long time coming. Since Reagan. Or longer. The thing I was taught... freshwest Jun 2012 #3
A grim picture but true and well-said. n/t ProfessionalLeftist Jun 2012 #4

ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)
2. Why should they? They know no one will stop them.
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 05:15 PM
Jun 2012

They have complete control now, all the way to the Usurping Clown Court.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
3. This has been a long time coming. Since Reagan. Or longer. The thing I was taught...
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 06:29 PM
Jun 2012

A long time ago, is that the wealthy have the resources to outlast generations of the struggles and revolutions of the lower classes. As we grow old and knowledge of how things were or could be to fight back, they make their move with each coming generation. Through media and other sources of regimenting thought and opinion.

At this a certain point the wise counsel of community is forgotten, and all that is heard is the voice of the rich. Perhaps it has always been so. Each generation has to remake itself, and all they have to do is continue to put us down and move the goal posts on us so that it's harder for us.

At some time in the past... Well, let's face it, several times in the past... Those we might call 'we the people' fought and tried to get more of the commons. What the commons really is, perhaps, is the resources of this planet. It is estimated that the ratio of control on the planet has not really changed between classes for hundreds or many thousands of years.

We have flags and countries and systems that allow for some mobility, but the real ownership that we never talk about, is still in place.

At one time this continent belonged to the native peoples, and there is doubt that it was ever ceded completely. It was numbers and technology that won this land for the Europeans that came here and under whose concepts of law and morality we currently work in. This is all that we know.

In some ways, we are more the slave to those ideas than what chattel slavery enforced. We have not changed our ideas of how we should relate to the ecosystem that supports us or each other. We are still figthing with each other, and the same mentality that promotes our not being united to change the facts on the ground, enriches the 1%.

Everything we do, even in opposition, seems to end up being their game. The natives did not play that game and were slaughtered. If we really resist, we will be slaughtered. We have not changed the big picture and are mainly renegotiating the terms of our servitude to the persons or entities that control the real things that matter in this world, the resources.

We just don't seem to be able to break that bondage. And with good reason, we are are compromised by physical needs. I've thought Occupy has had a pathway, but it's so diffused now that it's difficult to believe they will succeed. Summer has come, and they are not a presence politically.

The 1% count on our fatigue. We cannot help but be tired at times, as we work to keep ourselves in one piece. We need a dynamic or culture to move around and through the rulers to get what they have. It may never happen. But, here we are.

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