White Party Attacks the Voting Rights of People They Say They Need to Reach Out To
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Republicans are going to learn how to talk to women and minorities, and then spend ten million dollars on outreach to groups of people they alienated during the last election. There are just a few problems with that.
They can throw all the money at outreach that they want, the fact that they think money will solve anything demonstrates that they don’t understand their problem. People don’t like the stench of racial animosity, sexism, homophobia and social Darwinism so inherent in Republican policies and rhetoric. We recognize that whatever a Republican says, they mean the opposite.
When Republicans talk about job creation, they’re really out to kill as many jobs as they can in a single budget. Paul Ryan’s latest budget applies the same principles Americans rejected in November. It intends to kill the benefits provided under Obamacare, (but not the savings) destroy Medicare and replace it with coupons for what will be an even more unaffordable private healthcare system, destroy Social Security and Medicaid. From a tax perspective, it’s Romneyhood all over again. Once again, he calls for an increase in the already bloated defense budget. Ryan’s previous budgets were brutally transparent statements of the Republican Party’s priority of protecting the rich from paying their share of taxes. The only difference between the previous Ryan budgets and this year’s version is this one is more devastating to the economy with more savage cuts (in addition to the ones we already have thanks to the Republican Sequester.)
Republicans talk about how much they love America and freedom then smile as they declare war on your vote and further rig the electoral system. Knowing how unappealing their job killing and xenophobic policies are in mainstream America, and believing the problem is the composition of the electorate, Republicans are done with listening to people beyond their own echo chamber.
Two more Republican controlled State legislatures passed voter ID laws in the past week.
Last week, North Carolina’s Republican controlled legislature passed a voter ID law which will disenfranchise American citizens from the electoral process. Previous attempts to suppress the vote in North Carolina was vetoed by Democratic governor, Beverly Perdue, but Republican Governor McCrory already declared war on the vote so there is little doubt that he will sign this bill.
When McCrory first declared his war on the vote it was in the name of combatting non-existent voter fraud. Last weekend, NC House Speaker Thomas Tillis admitted what we already knew: voter ID laws are not passed to stop the fictional phantom of voter fraud.
