Sunday, September 28, 2014

Republicans are corrupting our democracy (#2067)

Instead of listening to the will of the majority of our citizenry, republicans have instead ignored that will and are using fear, hate and subtraction to divide and keep us from tossing them out of office.The idea of one person one vote is not an ideal republicans are willing to defend. Instead they are systematically obstructing the right to vote in our democracy by enacting laws that skirt equality through fear. What they do is make us afraid of a boogeyman and then try to tell us it is okay to equate some of our citizens as the actual boogeyman. Therefore in their rhetoric, taking the right to vote from some of us is a means of protecting us. How absurd of them to think that we would be gullible enough to accept their claims of fraud and cheating when their evidence is practically non-existent? What has been even more calculating is that republicans know that they are not the champions of the working/middle/poor class by choice so they target their boogeyman as within that class. Making it, in their minds, justifiable to eliminate as many of the working/middle/poor class votes as they can get away with. This has to stop and it will stop when our electorate realizes the slippery slope of republican voter rights obstruction. Today, those who are defenseless lose their right to vote, tomorrow, those who are able to fight will be at a disadvantage because of the precedent we allowed republicans to already establish. This is how it is done, metaphorically, start a ball rolling down hill and watch it gain momentum. If we do not punish the republican party for it's blatant attempt to "steal" our elections, we will suffer far greater losses of rights in the near future. If you let a bully take from others it won't be long before the bully sets his sights on you!

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