In
the aftermath of the Supreme Court's nefarious decision rendered in
the now infamous “Citizens United” case involving limits
on campaign contributions, then President Barack Obama chastised the
court warning that money would soon drown nearly all other political
expression and become a threat to our republic. Justice Samuel
Alito, sitting front and center, was seen shaking his head and
muttering the word “no” in opposition. Alito, who has never
stood for election and has never held responsibility for governing
can be forgiven his ignorance if it weren't so ideologically
inspired.
This
decision, as well as the gutting of the enforcement provisions of the
Voting Rights Act, reasoning, falsely, that the country had outgrown
the need for federal supervision of the electoral process have laid
the groundwork for the systematic manipulation of a determined
minority in this country to silence the majority. All this to serve
the interests of malignancy and greed.
The
ink had not yet dried on the effective negation of the Voting Rights
Act when states like North Carolina and Georgia, quickly followed by
more than a score more, were introducing voter I.D. Laws using the
wholly bogus claim of widespread voter fraud to erect barriers to
those who generally vote to fetter capital and demand services. As
time went by, even these measures weren't sufficient as the
conservative drive to service only the top one percent kept running
up against an albeit smaller but solid wall of opposition. Gaining
majority in congress through crass gerrymandering, and electing two
'presidents' via the electoral college has give the scum control of
the entire federal government, but so unpopular is the agenda of the
political wrong that they have had to resort to shredding
congressional rules and procedure to get even their ill-considered
tax cut passed, normally—because it is the only thing Rescumlicans
are able to do consistently—a “slam-dunk”.
Indeed,
the scum had to run riot over the senate rule requiring 60 votes for
a Supreme Court nomination because the choices presented were so
unpopular.
How
then to hold unto power. Simple. In the absence of effective
federal oversight states have gone about gerrymandering districts and
purging voter lists as the means to silencing the opposition.
Earlier this year the court upheld a state law passed by the
Rescumlican-dominated Ohio legislature purging the state's voter
rolls of over 400,000 voters because they vote only in presidential
election years. The court, employing the ever more frequent use of
judicial levitation, reasoned that somehow exercising your political
right not to vote mid-term or off-year elections invalidated
your registration.
Of
course, Democrats and the young tend to vote in higher numbers in
presidential election cycles and, therefore, by employing this bit of
political legerdemain, the conservatives are able to further strip
the rolls in places like Ohio and Florida of hundreds of thousands of
voices in opposition.
It
get's worse. In the South hundreds of polling places are being
closed, all most all in heavily black or Democratic precincts,
causing voters to trek miles to the polls. In Dodge City, Kansas, a
city now with a majority Hispanic population of 27,000, and over
7,000 registered voters, there was one polling place. Normally a
polling place accommodates roughly 1,200 voters. This has, in recent
years, led to long lines requiring hours of time to cast one's
ballot. That wasn't good enough for the scum running the state. Due
to the disgust with Disgustus, solid Rescumlican Kansas is
experiencing highly competitive political contests for the first time
in decades. What to do? Well in Dodge City, you get out of town.
That's
right, they've moved the single polling place out of town, and over a
mile from the nearest bus stop. And, because the scum control the
state government and nobody in Washington is watching, there is
nowhere for the good citizens to turn.
Then
there is North Dakota where Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp is
facing an uphill fight to keep her seat. She narrowly won last time
around by about 3,000 votes, the margin largely determined by two
Indian reservations that voted heavily in her favor. Answer: concoct
a laser strike at the Native American population by requiring that
all new Voter I. D.s require street addresses. Many on the
reservations don't have street addresses, but post office box numbers
instead. Passing this requirement on the eve of the balloting is
designed to insure that thousands will come to vote only to be turned
away.
This
is how the scum—in addition to their usual tactics—plan to hold
on to power. This is what happens when your leader is a fraud and so
is your claim to represent the people.
Meanwhile
the Rooskies are still at it and, reports are filtering in that the
Chinese and even the Saudi's are joining in the manipulations of our
coming election.
“An
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach
and Imprison.
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