The Republican Party knows something about “rigging” elections
The Republican Party knows something about “rigging” elections
By Propane Jane | October 26, 2016
For years now,
the Republican Party has been sacrificing its relevance to a terminal failure to understand just how unappealing their homogenized organization has become to the multicultural American public.
The GOP has adhered to willful denial that, despite all of the efforts to underestimate, delegitimize, intimidate, and criminalize Democratic-leaning voters, a marginalized majority has successfully assembled itself to impact national elections.
Which is the absolute opposite of “rigging.”
But rather than work to broaden their outlook and pivot their policies to reach out to all communities, Republican leaders have consistently doubled down on their institutionalized prejudices. They have willfully engaged in erasure of the oppressed communities — women, youth, people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants, disabled people, Jews, Muslims, and college-educated voters — who support Democratic politicians by wide margins.
The reality is that, for some time,
the inherent privilege in a political party which caters largely to white, heterosexual, cisgender, Christian voters has essentially “rigged” elections in their favor, facilitated by state-sanctioned voter suppression and their own deceitful practices.
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