August 4, 2011
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ALEC
This was a good comment about ALEC (which helps write legislation for lawmakers of Republican states to introduce for passage) and ALEC’s tactics. Altho’ I don’t know who “granny” is, she is a kindred spirit of this granny too! Whoever she is and wherever she is, I thank her! I hope citizens of ALL states where voting is being made so much more difficult will push back!
Walker’s Wisconsin
Submitted by granny on August 4, 2011 – 9:36am.
The tactics being used in Wisconsin to create a GOP dictatorship are both dangerous and clever. The fiendish Koch/ALEC cabal that Weyrich, Norquist et al have developed over the years can bring this state and this country to ruin. Sadly, the major “news” media, in great part bought and paid for by Big Business, far too rarely report the treasonous acts of the GOP. Sadly, too, even in the best of democratic times, there’s an apathy among voters. Voting takes time. “My vote can’t make a difference, ” etc. And this apathy is just what the GOP strategists are counting on. Now they are re-enacting the anti-voting tactics that prevailed across the South until the late 60′s.
But in the 60′s African Americans and some of their non-Black allies rose up and demanded enfranchisement for all Americans. We’ll be back in that anti-vote condition in Wisconsin unless democracy-loving Wisconsinites rise up, go to the polls, and push back the tide of tyranny. We can do it – but only if people VOTE WHILE WE STILL CAN.
Comments (2)
Voting is a civic duty – let’s hope everyone realizes that in local and state elections and Primaries each vote DOES count…
Seems to me that when people choose not to vote, they abdicate their right to complain.