Dragonlady
Designing Woman
and it falls to us all in that we share that "human" trait on all sides of the spectrum in some form or another. we put it aside for ourselves and those "like minded" then hammer the other side for doing it.No, you stupid cow, this is because all of these "rural" states are becoming more and more urbanized, as the population grows, and the economy is no longer centred and build on agriculture. And urban, educated voters are deserting the Republican Party of Donald Trump because it's a party built on hate and dividing Americans.
Trump is not helping middle class voters, who are now paying more in taxes than the wealthiest Americans, many of whose employees are being funded with food stamps, and earned income credits, and other taxpayer funded income supports, while stockholders receive record dividends.
The latest numbers show that not only are the rich getting richer under Donald Trump. They're getting richer, faster, under Donald Trump.
"Currently jailed felons are only allowed to vote in Maine and Vermont. Democrats would like to change state laws so all currently jailed inmates even those with felony records can vote including those out on parole and awaiting release from prison. With 5.8 million convicts that is a lot of votes. Democrats also know that 80 percent of all felons polled would vote democrat so now we can see the reason behind the push for prisoner rights.
Democrats point to the laws in other countries like Canada, Denmark and Israel that allow most convicted criminals even those who are serving prison sentences the right to vote. Democrats also are saying the law banning prisoners the right to vote disenfranchises African Americans the most who make up 40 percent of felons in the United States. In a Huffington Post interview, The Sentencing Project calls the law into question and says, “This is a fundamental question of democracy”.
Victim rights advocates call the push by democrats “insulting” and a “slap in the face to all victims of crime”. This issue will not be decided in time for this election, but democrats say they will continue to fight for a prisoner’s right to vote in all local and national elections."
http://medfordcitysearch.com/why-democrats-want-jailed-felons-to-vote/
Ironic. The white power structure of the old racism set up these laws to keep a despised class from voting against the security of their white power. Now here you come waddling in, aiming to do the same thing.
"The white power structure of the old racism..."
Why waste so many words, when that means 'the Democrat Party'?
1.The Democrat Party is the ‘win at any cost’ party. They thrived not on just using slavery, but perfecting it. Even after the Republican Party pried their slaves away, they used every advantage to continue the oppression.
In Congress, the Democrats blocked every anti-lynching bill that came up.
They are very good at perverting the legal system to their wishes: Democrats filibustered attempts to give women the right to vote.
2. Give credit where due, they learned how to convince the folks they used as slaves, that they had changed, and would right the wrongs they had committed……but the only thing they have done for the folks who still have the least wealth, is ban one particular word from conversation.
Lyndon Johnson succeeded in creating a classed society based on skin color….but it isn’t one they adhere to:
“That means Republicans in the Senate now have four African-American senior staff members and Democrats have one. Not a single black woman serves on the senior staff of any of the 48 Democratic senators. Not a single African-American serves as chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or communications director for any of the 48 Democratic senators.” KING: Senate Republicans continue to blow away their Democratic counterparts with hirings of new black staff members
Ironic irony is ironical. In this episode, the same voices continuously yammering on and on about "b-but but nobody who was a slave oppressed by segregationists is alive today" then want to turn around and blubber "b-but but everybody who was a segregationist oppressing black people is alive today!"
Classic stupidity.
just odd, to me.
What's odd to me is the refusal of the right to even acknowledge systemic racist exists, and to refuse to have ANY kind of discussion around it.
I looked at crime statistics which said that blacks commit 20% of all crimes, and yet they make up far more than 20% of the prison population. Then you look at studies which say that blacks are more likely than whites to be jailed for similar crimes. Behaviour in young white males that draws warnings from police, results in charges for young blacks, and charges for whites are more likely to draw suspended sentences, fines and probation than jail. Sentences for blacks are more likely to draw jail than probation. At ever step in the judicial process, blacks are treated more harshly than whites.
When we have seen the lengths that Republicans have gone to in recent years to gerrymander districts to ensure a Republican Congress, the voter suppression of "exact match", and changing address requirements for Native Americans - all classic voter suppression techniques, is it such a stretch to think that somebody within the halls of power isn't suggesting that jailing blacks eliminates that Democratic voter for life?