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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOPs war on democracy is an attack on the United States itself.
When a peon has the power to remove an emperor, the authoritarians shit themselves.
Voting and democracy enable countless peons to remove emperors, like Agent Orange, err Trump.
And thus, the authoritarian GOP is shitting itself. We see it in the numerous GOP voter-suppression laws being passed in many statehouses across this great land.
Democrats, CALL THEM OUT in your TV ads and on social media platforms like youtube, FB, IG etc.
Challenge every potential voter by asking them,
Are you going to allow the GOP to prevent you from voting?
Your vote can remove the authoritarian class from power. Your vote can remove the voter-suppressing GOP from power.
Are you going to allow the GOP to suppress your voice and your vote?
Democrats, its time to wage a pro-democracy, pro-voting war of our own.
The GOP is trying to silence a majority of US citizens by suppressing their ability to vote.
The fascist fucks shit themselves by your power to remove them from power, simply by voting.
Challenge EVERY voter to overcome Rethug voter suppression by turning out and voting.
Ask voters,
Will YOU allow the GOP to stop you from casting a ballot?
Make it the theme for 2022 and 2024 election cycles.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)From Fort Sumter to Appomattox to Reconstruction to Jim Crow Laws to Civil Rights abusers to Obama's Presidency resistance to the Tea Party to MAGA asshats.
We as a nation have NEVER fully rid ourselves of the pestilence of slavery and its hideous effects on society even 150+ years after its nominal abolishment.
These current attempts to change the voting laws in states to suppress of intimidate the vote of minorities of all flavors is an affront to democracy and to functional, empathic humans of all races too.
Any law that seeks to make voting MORE DIFFICULT is an atrocity. We can land rovers on Mars. We can spend TRILLIONS of dollars - either justly to help all Americans or unjustly to cut the taxes of the wealthiest Americans while simultaneously raising them on others. We can survive wars, depressions, stock market manias and mortgage frauds...we can even survive truly moronic leaders (Bush II) and overtly evil moronic leaders (Trump). Yet we cannot simplify and making voting in Federal elections straight forward and available to all eligible voters automatically?
I can transact my entire life on my phone. Communication, bill payments, investment strategies, government fines for traffic court, paying my taxes, all aspects of banking...yet we cannot agree to call the racists "racists" to their faces and formulate and implement a universal voting improvement plan that could then be modelled to the several states for their own elections? BULLSHIT...the same people who wanted war instead of giving up slaves, who refused to recognize their freedom or equality forever, STILL do not want a democracy where anyone but them gets to decide anything.
Pass the voting reform acts and put in the most draconian clauses imaginable to prevent future repeals.
Imallin4Joe
(758 posts)is to suppress the power of the minority vote. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
It is clearly meant to suppress minority voting.
Thank you for calling that out so masterfully!!