Hooray!
One cannot hate the scoundrels enough. It is hard to keep up.
Another attempt to cheat, opening polling places late seems to be a theme as it’s happened in multiple places (all seem to be Democratic areas too). Good thing that the judges are holding the polls open, hopefully people are able to vote who couldn’t in the morning.
The entire voting system really is rigged…it’s almost designed to keep non-Republican votes from getting to vote. That really, really needs to be a priority for the Democrats whenever they get enough power to change the rules again.
So weird. I happened to watch Mississippi Burning last night and saw once again how totally whites controlled local government and police and kept black citizens from voting by any means, whether by laws or intimidation or violence. Seeing the hatred, arrogance and total lack of concern for consequences back then and how long and hard the fight was to bring justice and freedom to all citizens, it brought home the reality that there is no rest from that fight, and that the battle to keep voters away from the polls continues even today. I am astonished that 60 years later, the fight to keep polling places open for logical and fair reasons are still having to be settled by judges.
And I read a piece this morning that LBJ wrote right before the midterms of 1966. In it he warns at length that Americans should not be caught up in white backlash. The country was really badly divided then but he saw where the anger was coming from. His warning is as prescient as Eisenhower’s warning about the Military Industrial complex and the people who were determined to rollback the New Deal.
A-fucking-men! Priority #1. Every person’s vote needs to count – and we need to be able to prove it is how we do business, no matter the person’s party or politics.
Get the feeling I like John Cole’s twitter feed?
I’ve always liked John Cole.
Ready for a stressful night, beattycat?
Excellent twitter link…for me to poop on!
Good guy. I discovered his blog ages ago when Markos (dailykos) recommended it as a reasonable conservative viewpoint. Soon afterwards Cole became a dirty fucking hippie. Terry Schiavo episode was the final straw for him.
The whites who controlled the town were KKK members and everyone else in a position of authority was in complete sympathy.
The problem was then and still is White-Supremacy, the cornerstone of Republican politics since at least 1967-68 Nixon campaign embraced political operative Lee Atwater’s “Southern Strategy” that sought to enflame white racist fears down South as a motivation for them to turn from the Democratic party and vote Republican. This Evil they have been building on ever since culminating in the blatant White Supremist Racism of Trump who has merely ripped the mask off what is foundational in Republican party politics.
Republicans are Evil; must be Destroyed.
Yep. I deliberately gave the news just a passing glance today so I’d have some fucks to give tonight. 
I could forward you all the good news so far only dribbling out of California. One item is named Newsom, others are Feinstein and Pelosi. 