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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
We are already here. Voter suppression is going to explode over the next four years. Republicans will pack the courts with assholes who will uphold voter suppression laws. The DOJ will not investigate anything. Voter fraud is, effectively, now truth. Holding a recount will not affect this significantly in either direction.
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This is not hyperbole. The GOP is going to game it like we've never seen before.
But in fairness, so were the Democrats. I agree with letting felons back onto the voting rolls, but that was a naked play for new votes. And immigration reform would only create more D voters.
You can say that the R's efforts are vile, as suppression is intended to keep people from exercising rights, while the D's efforts are aimed at being more inclusive. And no one can argue with that proposition. However, it does remain a fact that both parties were seeking to retain control by procedural means. It just happens that one's doing some serious cheating, while the other was just trying to pack the rolls.
I've heard the R's actions in this regard justified as avoidance of tyranny of a low information majority. This seems ironic given the typical Trump voter in Sticksville, but I can understand a bit of it. I think it was de Tocqueville who said that eventually democracy falls on its face because the sector of the population voting based on promises of transfers to it from the treasury becomes impossible to defeat. Ds need to learn they cannot keep promising things to people who cannot afford them on their own. Rs need to learn they cannot keep doing so while cutting taxes for their benefactors. Of course, neither will do so until its far too late.
