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In reply to the discussion: I'm really annoyed that someone people have JUST discovered the consequence of gutting the VRA [View all]PATRICK
(12,228 posts)If there had been no primary as would have been likely this Arizona "problem" would never have shown up until too late. How can the party not know how bad these utterly transparent suppression schemes are? It would cost Hillary the state in the fall without this early outrage. Even so, will it get repaired anyway? Not just gutting the VRA. Once the GOP- which simply can't win a general election without fraud and corporate media- gets a statehouse that state descends into their dark column despite them treating their state and voters universally like crap.
The answer is just an simplistic as the impunity of GOP fraud, get lots and lots of votes to make up for the ones that are expected to be stolen or repressed! So winning or losing an election either way, democracy declines because we shrug off the injustice and moronic advantage thrown to these beasts either way. If you really want Hillary to win on auto pilot just stop the bleeding away of our right to vote. The GOP depends on their fake edge like they do their dark money.
By the way, Rehnquist was an up front and personal vote suppressor for the GOP in Arizona in the day. People were pretending we actually had a chance with his court? Guarantee the right to vote. REALLY attract and register voters, put people in jail for treasonous fraud, but above all restore the laws necessary to protect our rights. Once VRA was swept away, what little the Feds could do went with it.
And that goes to pushing the appointment of yet another GOP judge whose central core values favor business and the GOP even if only at a justice Kennedy level. Why do we keep the lawless GOP alive? It isn't for laughs, Trump notwithstanding.