One of the most important stories not being given the heft it deserves by the traditional media is the republican war on voters' rights. They can't win enough elections on the merit of the arguments (since about 70% either aren't sure or are convinced the republicans are completely full of shit), so they'll suppress Democratic voters. In a word, cheat.
And--surprise, surprise--their main targets are the least of their brothers: the poor and minorities.
George Bernard Shaw famously said, "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." One has to wonder if the famously dim republicans responsible for draconian voting restrictions thought very much about Indonesia under Sukarno, South Africa under apartheid, Egypt under Mubarak, Libya under Qaddafi, or hell, the American colonies under King George. Disenfranchising people who have absolutely nothing to lose is a recipe for disaster--as all of the above eventually found out.
Peace,
emaycee
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