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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas GOP Platform Calls For Repealing Voting Rights Act Of 1965
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/26/506363/texas-gop-voting-rights-act/
clang1
(884 posts)it is blitzkrieg happening across America. ANYTHING to disfranchise people from their vote.
flamingdem
(39,342 posts)to manage such a blatant attack.
They figured they'd distract everyone with Holder and pull this off
clang1
(884 posts)this will be EVERY election cycle. Hell maybe I forget my own American history but this is BULLSHIT. No I have not forgotten, this is NEW. This is way more sophisticated than what they used to do and more dangerous. All of it is. ITS SIMPLE. NO NEED TO BEAT PEOPLE UP WHEN THEY CANT GO TO THE POLLS TO BEGIN WITH. People should realize that because that is all this is. It not American.
flamingdem
(39,342 posts)-- because this is where the rubber meets the road. The number one tool against repukes -- voting.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)clang1
(884 posts)DAMN. It is everyone! Do you think that list in Florida is sorted by color? PLEASE
As usual, people not seeing past their own noses and they win! What is so damn hard for people to see about that. People don't even use their own common sense and that is a losing proposition to me.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Zip codes in which a preponderence of the residents are low-income, black, brown or have Hispanic surnames, etc.
A zip code tells marketers whether or not the residents can afford what they are selling - in this case they are selling the GOP and they may determine that they may get no buyers in that zip code.
And, I have plenty of common sense - apparently alot more than you.......
clang1
(884 posts)PCIntern
(25,662 posts)Mark my words...
Bastards...
clang1
(884 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)And you can rest assured that Scalia and "Uncle Clarence" Thomas are trying to figure out a way to gut the 13th Amendment, too.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I have way more respect for someone who is a member of the skinheads or KKK because at least they have the balls to tell you they are racist unlike the chickenshit GOP who hides behind their fancy suits and $400 haircuts and claim they aren't racist even when they support shit like that.
clang1
(884 posts)TX GOP Senate Candidates Unanimously Oppose Voting Rights Act
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/16/445917/tx-gop-senate-candidates-unanimously-oppose-voting-rights-act/
They called for repeal of the Voting Rights Act provision that requires Texas and other Southern states with histories of discrimination to receive pre-clearance when changing election laws.
Right now, Texas is subjected to different standards than much of the country, former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz said during the forum, hosted by the Dallas Bar Association. I think we need to be fighting to ensure the law is colorblind and fair to everyone.
Voting Rights Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act
States and counties requiring preclearance under Section 5 of the VRA as of January, 2008. Several small jurisdictions have since bailed out,[21] but the majority of the map remains accurate
The jurisdictions listed below must be precleared (see 28 C.F.R. part 51 appendix):[22]
States
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Georgia, except for the city of Sandy Springs
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia, except for fourteen counties (Amherst, Augusta, Botetourt, Essex, Frederick, Greene, Middlesex, Page, Pulaski, Roanoke, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Washington and Warren) and four independent cities (Fairfax, Harrisonburg, Salem, and Winchester)
SOON EVEN MORE SECRET VOTER PURGE LISTS COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU JUST LIKE IN FLORIDA
RIGHT NOW
The progression continues...
dsc
(52,175 posts)guess you learn something new every day. I can't figure out how we avoided it but apparently we did.
malaise
(269,365 posts)Fuck these fucking fuckers
freshwest
(53,661 posts)And saying that ending slavery caused a holocaust for blacks from being set free.
Scalia cited essentially eugenics laws on when states were able to evict or punish anyone in their states who were poor, disabled or the wrong color, in his vote on immigration law. Obama and the DOJ are resisting him and now the GOP is calling to impeach him for it.
I never expected to see a return of this level of regression in my lifetime. And they will win either way if the American people keep electing them.
If a civil war ensues, they win because they've gutted the ability of civil government to fight back.
If we don't have a civil war, keep on putting up with them and allow them to continue to destroy civil soceity, and give in they also win.
Only solution is to keep the person in office who is fighting them off. And put more in to support him doing it.
We are living in a time when we can choose. For a little while longer, anyway.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Newtie used to talk about sharia law and GOP is going to hack their way to be in step with sharia laws.
AJTheMan
(288 posts)Like when everything was a theocracy, women stayed home to make food and babies and blacks tended to the farms.
clang1
(884 posts)IT WILL LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THAT ONLY MODERN so merely imagine the possibilities.
There is already the prison state, that's easy, its already done, what's next? You can already add to this list now even. Serfdom is what they want. Add working for Walmart at 8 dollars an hour, add no health care, no own place to live... Already modern Serfdom. Keep going.... It IS going to happen people, it is already HAPPENING. Things cannot be any clearer than what they already are. It is that simple.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The peasantry knows its place and stays there - at the point of a sword - a small class of gentry serves the aristocrats as administrators and managers and the aristocrats (1%) rule everything, unchallenged and unchallengeable. Twas ever thus.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Why am I not surprised? The Republicans only want White Republican Males to vote and will find a way to disenfranchise anyone who doesn't fit this mold. Those who want this are not true Americans. They are fascists of the highest degree. I wonder if this might not be worthy of the label "treason" ?
clang1
(884 posts)Morally what they do is TREASON. Hell more than morally...what they do is TREASON. I just do not know what else to call it other than that, same as you. ITS OBVIOUS WHAT IT IS OTHERWISE PEOPLE WOULD NOT SAY IT. WE CAN SEE IT --And that is what matters... I am no lawyer, but it seems to me we need some new laws. Something must be done. You can never stop this by trying to only stop pieces of it. What's left when you do that just continues on.... Period. That is the way this stuff works. All you do is slow it some...in the end the same results.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)That certainly makes this 1StrongBlackMan want to move to Texas!
clang1
(884 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)I know a lot of people hate education (on both sides of the aisle, even if the GOP's vastly worse), but I don't think I've ever seen that stated that baldly before. Goddamn.
and when people DO Think, they let others FRAME their thoughts. Think about that. It's not by accident that it is so.
cynatnite
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GarroHorus
(1,055 posts)clang1
(884 posts)You could be brown,white,black, whatever...it does not matter your color. THAT IS NOT WHAT ALL OF THIS IS ABOUT. PERIOD.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)nanabugg
(2,198 posts)not even the ones in the 1%.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)They don't even hide it anymore. I honestly thought Republicans couldn't sink any lower, but as usual, they prove me wrong.
Skittles
(153,321 posts)FOR THINKING THE GOP COULDN'T SINK ANY LOWER
*EGREGIOUS*
No matter how low they go the GOP can ALWAYS go lower
You are quite right. I will accept my ass kicking and never doubt that they can go lower again
Mosaic
(1,451 posts)It will die like most crazy things do. Repugs are like little children lashing out at Mexicans for now becoming the majority. This an amusing act of desperation by a party of lunatics. America needs two parties, a Democratic one for capitalism, and another for socialism, the People. The so called greedy old party must die, or at the very least fade away. We know how they cheat, lie, steal and how corrupt they are. We must unite to end this cancer on our nation. God bless America, all of us no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, etc. We are America, and we will triumph!
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)Republicans are afraid.The Hispanic voting bloc has been a little too uppity lately.Time to put them in their place.
Mosaic
(1,451 posts)I know you are kidding, but it is the repugs that are uppity in this case as they are the MINORITY. Texas no longer has whites as a majority, please never forget that. And that's okay, that is the future. It's up to us Democrats to put them in their place!