This article is long, but has plenty of good information in it about Republican voter suppression.
PLEASE read this article. I have been saying this forever. Republican voter suppression is wayyy more of a danger to freedom and democracy than some targeted Facebook ads from Russia.
Russia didn’t stop votes from being counted in Florida when George W. Bush stole the election in 2000.
Russia didn’t gut the Voting Rights Act.
Russia didn’t make SCOTUS legalize Citizens United, making it easier for super PACS and secret money from billionaire conservatives to influence election outcomes.
Russia didn’t close down voting places in black communities, poor neighborhoods and nearby college campuses.
Russia didn’t create the Electoral College, which has it’s origins in slave states maintaining white supremacy.
Russia isn’t forcing us to use outdated, privately owned machines that run on Internet Explorer and leave no paper trail, making it easier to falsify election results.
Russia didn’t pass scores of voter ID laws and then immediately close down driver’s license offices close to predominantly poor black neighborhoods.
Russia doesn’t use purge lists to remove voters with common “black surnames” from our voter rolls, even though they’re legally registered and eligible to vote.
Russia hasn’t systematically used mass incarceration as a means of preventing black people from voting since Reconstruction.
Russia hasn’t gerrymandered our voting districts so that conservative politicians can get millions less votes than Democrats, but still win House races anyway.
And Russia hasn’t passed countless other laws that have disenfranchised generations of black and brown voters in the US – the GOP did all of that. Republicans are the clear and present danger here. Republicans are the existential threat to our democracy.
YES, Donald Trump absolutely needs to be impeached and arrested for colluding with a foreign power to win the election. Yes, we need to make sure that another nation can’t interfere in our elections. And yes, Vladimir Putin—who
is possibly a bigger homophobe than even Mike Pence—is definitely manipulating Trump. But OMG, please let’s address all of the obvious problems in our own backyard before we focus all our time and energy on Russia “hacking” the last election. Maybe let’s try doing that first.
Yes, the election was rigged. Here’s the proof.
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