If you aren't familiar with the Republican Party's efforts and work, over many years, to disenfranchise anyone and everyone who doesn't think, and so, vote, as they wish, you need to pay attention.
The fact is, Republicans have been gerrymandering the nation and for at least decades.
What is gerrymandering someone might ask? Defined, it is
"...In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan-advantaged districts.
The fact is, what they, Republicans, have been doing and trying to do is to get anyone and everyone who might not be aligned with their voting patterns, from being able to vote. This would include the following groups, proven, historically:
--Young
--Elderly--at least, elderly who aren't already-wealthy
--Poor and/or impoverished
--The physically-challenged
--Minorities including:
- --Blacks and African-Americans
- --Hispanics and Latinos
This took place 2016:
Not to be done there, this happened 3 days ago.
This story broke only yesterday and it's happening right next door, no less, in neighboring Kansas.
The entire city has 27000 residents. 60% of those residents are Hispanic. So if you're white and Right Wing and Republican, what to do?? Why, move the one polling place, as it says, outside the city limits.
It is stunning.
This, too, is going on now, in Georgia.
And it's how they got a man with a horrible reputation even in his own political party and with zero government experience elected to the White House, the highest office in the land even though he got at least 3 million less popular votes than his political opponent. Sure, you get out-voted but hey, load the voting districts your way and voila! The Electoral College makes you President anyway!
And sure, Democrats are legally capable of gerrymandering also but the fact is, Republicans have used it and been using it to load their--our--voting districts for years now, as I've said and shown here.
Not done there, not done with just gerrymandering, this political party took it further, much further, too. Not only do they use these voter ID laws to help them in elections, disenfranchising fellow citizens in the process, but they've publicly admitted it, as well.
This, to me, is the worst aspect of these voter ID laws and their requirements, this next point.
It's been also proved there is nearly zero true voter fraud, on anyone's part, too.
There is a great "meme" out there on social networks I've seen recently. It asks, how bad is your political party if your way of "success" is to keep Americans from voting?
And the answer is, bad. Really, really bad. And not in a Michael Jackson way, by any stretch.
So what all this means, what we need to do, as a nation, as a people is, first, get the Republicans out of power, out of office, and then, once and for all, make gerrymandering and voter ID laws, both, illegal. We need to truly, truly take back the vote.
We can do this.
We must.
Vote November 6!
And VOTE BLUE!! Vote Democratic! Then let's work and fight for change.
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