Reply #32: America is not a democracy....yet..

[brindis_desala]

For conservatives democracy is an affront to the status quo. For them the state is all about protecting property against the claims of the dispossessed; which is why they resent paying taxes. What the Republicans have managed to do is insinuate race into what is a struggle over the privileges of wealth and class. Working-class whites have been convinced that their "values" makes them allies of the elite when nothing is further from the truth. Why the fraud issue is important is that most Americans still believe in their own goodness and vote tampering is a hard nut to spin.