"In 1890, southern white leaders promised the North that voter suppression would make the South bloom. They were wrong: by concentrating wealth and power among a few white leaders, it kept the South mired in poverty for at least two generations. Rejecting voter suppression this time around could write an entirely different story.”
"In 1890, southern white leaders promised the North that voter suppression would make the South bloom. They were wrong: by concentrating wealth and power among a few white leaders, it kept the South mired in poverty for at least two generations. Rejecting voter suppression this time around could write an entirely different story.”
The question which presses more and more upon Americans is whether the GOP leaders care about average people being “mired in poverty?” Indeed it appears that this is precisely where the GOP and its billionaire backers want to push Americans-- in the ancient belief of oppressors that an ignorant, impoverished people is a passive and quiescent people, manipulable because they have no real independent intentions of their own.
The authoritarian intention behind the GOP revealed itself openly under Trump, though its mob mentality had been increasingly on display at Republican conventions. It seems to me that the dark money people and their minions have calculated that now is the time to come out of the closet and stop pretending altogether to care about justice and equality, to fight for the power which is their overriding concern. The wealthy don’t want to be subject to the needs of their fellow citizens, they want their fellow citizens to be functional subjects, servants of their intentions and whims.
This at any rate is how it appears to me. So far as I know the only politician who has been addressing this directly is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. We need more of his caliber.
The only answer for this question is that the Repubs prefer an us/them slave state where they control us. Capitalism gone awry. Imperialism. Knee/neck thing.
"In 1890, southern white leaders promised the North that voter suppression would make the South bloom. They were wrong: by concentrating wealth and power among a few white leaders, it kept the South mired in poverty for at least two generations. Rejecting voter suppression this time around could write an entirely different story.”
The question which presses more and more upon Americans is whether the GOP leaders care about average people being “mired in poverty?” Indeed it appears that this is precisely where the GOP and its billionaire backers want to push Americans-- in the ancient belief of oppressors that an ignorant, impoverished people is a passive and quiescent people, manipulable because they have no real independent intentions of their own.
The authoritarian intention behind the GOP revealed itself openly under Trump, though its mob mentality had been increasingly on display at Republican conventions. It seems to me that the dark money people and their minions have calculated that now is the time to come out of the closet and stop pretending altogether to care about justice and equality, to fight for the power which is their overriding concern. The wealthy don’t want to be subject to the needs of their fellow citizens, they want their fellow citizens to be functional subjects, servants of their intentions and whims.
This at any rate is how it appears to me. So far as I know the only politician who has been addressing this directly is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. We need more of his caliber.
The only answer for this question is that the Repubs prefer an us/them slave state where they control us. Capitalism gone awry. Imperialism. Knee/neck thing.