It's rigged, I tells ya. Rigged!
Donald Trump may be, is, in fact, an openly racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, narcissistic, authoritarian, ignorant, habitual liar — but when he’s right, he’s right
This election is rigged.
“As of August 2016, 31 states enforced voter identification requirements.”
Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, “Voter ID” laws have been enacted in states where Republicans have complete control. The laws are designed to make it harder for traditionally Democratic constituencies to vote. That is, the laws are designed to rig elections.
There is no purpose for these laws other than rigging elections: no evidence of need, no documented fraud worth worrying about.
Republicans have even admitted that the purpose of these laws is to rig elections, to suppress Democratic votes. They openly have said as much. Along with racial gerrymandering to minimize Democrat representation, voter ID laws are an attempt to steal what Republicans have not been able to win electorally.
There also are the attempts to limit hours of voting, days of voting, and polling locations. The purpose of these changes to voting procedures is – you guessed it – to rig elections.
The most shameful part of this is not the silence of the mainstream press, though that is damning. The most shameful part is that all this rigging of elections has been done by rank and file, establishment Republicans operating in the open.
Trump’s doing his part, now. His calls for supporters to “monitor” polling sites is an attempt to rig the elections by intimidation – the phrase “jack-booted thugs” comes to mind. Maybe all those Republican “open carry” laws had to do less with gun rights and more with election “monitoring.” I don’t know, but lots of people are saying that.
So, Trump is right: the election is rigged. As we would expect, though, even when he’s right, he’s wrong. This election is rigged: obviously, undeniably, no doubt about it. But it’s not rigged against a certain blathering sociopath. It’s rigged against Democrats, and it was rigged by Republicans operating in full view of the national press. We need to start saying that more often and louder.
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