My beautiful daughter sent me this piece by Jonathan Chait about republican election rigging via gerrymandering, legislation, voter intimidation, and whatever else their puny little minds can come up with, and it reminds me of the old maxim that people learn from history that they learn nothing from history.
While this may well work for republicans and their wealthy benefactors in the short run, in the long run, from the American Revolution, to the French Revolution, to the Arab Spring (and just about any other revolution you can think of) the quickest way to provoke a violent and ultimately successful revolution is to take away a people's voice.
Disenfranchising voters while ramming your unpopular policies down a people's throat is not a recipe for a nation that will survive very long.
Peace,
emaycee
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