Friday, November 09, 2012

Winning the Outside Chance

For a little while, anyway. The sad fact is that the GOP, in its desire to remain relevant at all costs, has fostered a voting base that believes anyone who isn't in line with their way of thinking is un-American, and dangerous ... which is why so many of them apparently had no qualms about stealing the right to vote from their fellow citizens in states all across the land. Why not? It's a matter of National Security for them, or so they've been told. Those un-Christian terrorist liberals aren't real Americans, so it isn't actually a crime against the country and the Constitution to take from them their most basic right ... because they don't have rights ... right?

That's what they believe, what they have to believe in order to justify disenfranchising so many people. I'll bet most of the folks who got their hands dirty "safeguarding" the ballot from The Enemy Within are probably good and decent people, in the main. They think they're doing The Lord's Work, because that's what they've been told: from the church pulpit, from the bully pulpit, by their pastors and their leaders, for years on end. The lesson stuck, and here we are, smack dab in the middle of a country torn in half by design, because it's the easy way to win.

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