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(16,685 posts)EleanorR
(2,391 posts)I dont want everybody to vote, Paul Weyrich, an influential conservative activist, said in 1980. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)better service AND people need to vote early or by mail. Im tired of losing, especially when we can do something about it.
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)which is fine with me, but the county is responsible for this. We are going to beat ourselves if its like this in November. County needs to step up, and people need to vote early or by mail to avoid this.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Where I live, they are still in mourning because long dead members of their families died when the Yankees came and burned innocent farmers' farms down during the Civil War. That's how they see it. They never STFU about it.
It's just as racist and shitty as it ever was where I live though. We might as well be living in a different era, more than 100 years ago, here. 75 miles east, there is Charlotte. 100 miles north, there is Raleigh. Where I live? Same as it ever was. Place is full of right wing racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic bigots. Even the small gay community that is here is shit. It's full of lesbians I won't date, because they never STFU about how they'd never be with a black woman and how much they hate gay men. I refuse to spend time with them, because of that. Fuck those bigots too. Fuck all these bigots.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)hvn_nbr_2
(6,486 posts)TheDemsshouldhireme
(172 posts)to be in the spotlight. A big huge spotlight on their knee in the neck of POC. That decision should be a front and center issue in the November election and on national news right now.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Well stated!
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)speaknow
(321 posts)Robert Reich comes up a little short on things
some times!LOL
I like Mr Reich, he right ! Just wait till Nov.
No matter what State what City it appears
that there is always problems with voting in
poor neighborhood's. Either the machine's are
broken or where the hell do you vote, even if you
can vote somehow. No matter what machine's or
what year, there is always a mess for the poor to have
to deal with it.
intheflow
(28,473 posts)Do you think Reich is right or wrong about this?