Gut Out the Vote 1
I can’t decide whether, in its ruling on the Voting Rights Act, the majority in the Supreme Court was being delusional or craven. Or both.
Anyone who pays attention knows that attempts to suppress votes are no farther away than your local legislature’s last attempt to restrict the franchise and that they are more common in the South.
And the white South has not changed, not that much, and not that fundamentally. The number of Stars and Bars decals on cars and trucks attests to that.
This was a vile ruling, a boon to bigots, a compounding of corruption, a polluting of the polity.
See Dick Polman for more and even more.
George Smith expects the worst. According to TPM, he’s not far off the mark.
June 26, 2013 at 10:58 am
You can apply a few logic tests to show how monomaniacal the right is on the issue and how obvious is its racism. The past election was not decided by voter fraud. Yet these new laws and proposed legislative moves are invariably all peddled as remedies to that alleged thing. Nor are they bipartisan. This is a ‘problem’ that needs to be solved only by those who live in the red. The last feature posits a rhetorical question to which everyone knows the answer. Would any of this have happened had Barack Obama not been president? It was only a few months ago that Ted Nugent, who has been mainstreamed in this period, asserted in a column in the WaTimes that people who receive ‘entitlements’ or benefits ought not to be allowed to vote. Romney wouldn’t go that far but that’s the root of this.