I just watched some of the raw, black and white films of the riots of Selma
That happened 50 years or so. This was the pivotal event that ended up with the Voting Rights Act.
The VRA is probably the singular moment in the 60's because it showed that defying entrenched power was possible and that the country was energized.
With the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by five of the most privileged men in this country, men who never had to jump through hoops to exercise their rights, the US could very well fall back into way it was.
I know that sounds like hysteria but several states have already moved to reinstate purging of voters, barriers for registration and limiting vote by mail.
I'm not a young man anymore. And here in Ohio there is no real push for drastic change in how we conduct election so far. So I wish for those DU'ers who live in states that have already implemented changes that throw up so many barriers to voters that it will be hard to keep the Democratic Party viable in some of these states to keep the faith and do something, anything to stop the madness.
I honestly thought this was stuff that was settled, that the US would never go back to segregation and wide spread voter suppression.
Fuck!
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It is exactly how we see our abortion rights:
I honestly thought this was stuff that was settled...
Good Americans are being attacked on many fronts, and we are forced to fight those battles all over again, ones that we thought we had settled long ago.
years ago. Yet here we are again
Vote 2014
GOTV2014
are 30 states involved in passing some kind of voter suppression - 30 out of 51 which is almost 60 freaking percent of the states wanting to push back the laws to the 50's. Hysteria is in order and right freaking now! 
