It's nothing less than the makings of a coup by the GOP
To wrest power, in spite of any democratic decision otherwise.
The slashing of the Voting Rights Act, along with voter suppression laws and massively uninhibited gerrymandering seeks to do one thing; make the votes of people who normally support Republicans worth twice more than those who normally support Democrats.
The main population centers of the country mostly do not support the Republican party, Blue America, whereas Red America mostly make up the space in between. Those huge swaths of red have not been lost on Republicans, who in spite of the Electoral College, believe that they can use all of that red space to their advantage.
The US House of Representatives is a perfect example of their efforts to prevent Democrats from being elected as the majority party. Make NO mistake about it, Democrats are the majority party in this country. The GOP House majority is an unnatural occurrence, due to the gerrymandering, while in the Senate, where most states vote for their members by a purely popular vote process, it more accurately depicts the preferences of each state electorate.
The next stage that the GOP will attempt in order to regain the White House and take over the Senate will be to constrict the value of votes in traditionally blue areas. Section Five of the VRA was instrumental in stopping the Right in those states from suppressing traditional left leaning voters. It was essential in facilitating the natural process of a declining majority white demographic trend and inhibiting efforts by the right power structure in those effected states to remain unchallenged now and in the future.
After voter suppression, a massive effort to isolate blue areas through redistricting will commence.
Major population areas are, by definition, multi-cultural in nature and naturally more likely to become more tolerant and egalitarian. They are naturally blue. This kind of thing is the bane of a non-inclusive and intolerant Red America.
Since Blue America has the people, I suggest that Blue should start invading Red to create a more Purple America. An America that more accurately reflects the nation's overall political preferences. Some of that movement need not be too radical at all, simply by moving from safe blue districts to marginally affected red districts. The result would create more purple ones.
There will be a process of isolation against Blue America facilitated by the Far Right, the GOP and the corporate allies who stand to gain from voter suppression.
Only True Democracy can defeat their efforts.
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Obama isn't sitting around listening to people's calls.
Send the national guard to make sure legal voters can vote. Issue an EO implementing background checks for guns, which at least 3/4 of Americans suport. Obamacare is now the law of the land. When these teabaggers break it, prosecute them.
This is the strangest train of discussion ever.
BOGers: The president can't do anything about anything. And BTW stop complaining about SS cuts and domestic spying. You can't do that AND fight the right at the same time.
It's gotten to resemble a mental illness. Look at the first reply to Mr. Scorpio's OP. "We can't fight the right because too many people are complaining about being spied on"
The BOGers are so busy defending domestic spying that they join sides with the teabaggers to try to suppress sane voices on the president's republican initiatives.
on the money! Welcome.
