I have a problem with the whole mentality that if voting changed things, they would make it illegal. This is blatant voter suppression and is close to making voting illegal.
It's actually more insidious than making voting illegal.
It's a way to essentially disallow certain groups from voting - people of colour, young people, immigrants, the working class etc - by diluting their voting power down enough that it cannot swing the result. Yet because some votes are counted and those groups aren't explicitly excluded from the process, it nullifies the obvious injustice and ease with which people can band together to challenge it.
Yeah, there's a lot of tension between "Republicans know how power works and aren't afraid to play dirty to win" and "despite the decades of blatant Republican attempts at voter suppression I still don't believe voting matters lol."
I have a problem with the whole mentality that if voting changed things, they would make it illegal. This is blatant voter suppression and is close to making voting illegal.
It's actually more insidious than making voting illegal.
It's a way to essentially disallow certain groups from voting - people of colour, young people, immigrants, the working class etc - by diluting their voting power down enough that it cannot swing the result. Yet because some votes are counted and those groups aren't explicitly excluded from the process, it nullifies the obvious injustice and ease with which people can band together to challenge it.
Yeah, there's a lot of tension between "Republicans know how power works and aren't afraid to play dirty to win" and "despite the decades of blatant Republican attempts at voter suppression I still don't believe voting matters lol."
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