DownWithTyranny! Conservatives Have Never Wanted Poor People To Have The Right To Vote-- And They Still Don't

History of voting rights in the US.

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Conservatives Have Never Wanted Poor People To Have The Right To Vote-- And They Still Don't
DownWithTyranny!

Lou Dubose — Republicans Launch Game-changing War on Black Voters in the South

Apartheid.

It is part of a strategy of “packing” African Americans into their own “black legislative and congressional districts,” Fort said, which will lead whites to conclude they have no place in the state’s Democratic Party. 

“Their model is the Mississippi model, the Alabama model, where the Democratic Party is the black party,” Fort said.

AlterNet
Republicans Launch Game-changing War on Black Voters in the South
Lou Dubose, The Washington Spectator

Howard Fineman — Supreme Court Voting Rights Decision: The Civil War Is Over, And A New War Begins

A new civil war begins with Congress gridlocked. Potentially a step backward for democracy and civil rights in the US in this poisonous environment, especially when minority voters heavily favor one party and the other party can at least forestall fixes if not legislate in their favor. Outlook: poor.

The Huffington Post
Supreme Court Voting Rights Decision: The Civil War Is Over, And A New War Begins
Howard Fineman | Editorial Director of the Huffington Post Media Group

Robert Parry — The Neo-Confederate Supreme Court

The Right’s desperation over U.S. demographic changes has spread to the U.S. Supreme Court where its five Republican partisans appear ready to tear up the most important part of the Voting Rights Act and thus clear the way for suppressing the votes of minorities, reports Robert Parry....

The Supreme Court’s apparent intention to gut the Voting Rights Act also could be viewed in the continuum of its five-to-four ruling in the Citizens United case of 2010 in which the right-wing justices freed up rich Americans to spend unlimited amounts to influence political campaigns. In other words, the Court’s majority seems intent on tilting the political playing field in favor of white plutocrats. 

But the Court’s Neo-Confederate rationale was underscored mostly openly by Justice Scalia and his sneering remark about minority voting rights being a “racial entitlement” and by Justice Kennedy’s insistence that Alabama has the “independent sovereign” right to set its own voting rules without federal oversight.

Consortium News
The Neo-Confederate Supreme Court
Robert Parry

The Civil War is still raging in some quarters and portends to go national as white rule is perceived to be under threat as demographics shift. This has the potential to seriously undercut US soft power globally as the US is increasingly perceived as a rogue state. Unchecked it will also result in rekindling domestic civil unrest.

Due to this neo-Confederate trend that harkens back to the Articles of Confederation, as Parry observes, the issues that led to the Civil War are being revived at the highest levels of the state. Parry presents a useful short lesson in American history that is becoming more and more relevant as whites seek to enshrine their privileged status by using law and enforcement to maintain their position.