The truth of the matter right now is, the Republicans, Conservatives whatever you choose to call them are scared. They know Mitt Romney is a weak candidate and they fear he won't win the election. Meanwhile they've been waging a war on essentially every form of minority in the country, and single women. Basically anyone who's not a rich old white man has been under attack by the Republican party. In fact before this convention the party its self urged its members to vote for Romney and gather all of their support for him. To be honest, I've never seen a political party so stupendously desperate before. So like I said, the Republican party is shitting their pants right now because they know they have an extremely weak candidate.
So, what have they been doing to compensate for it? Taking away voter rights of course. Tea Party governors across the nation have been introducing voter bills that make voting significantly more difficult for certain sections of the population. Voters without ready to access to computers, drivers licenses, cars.. basically the kind of people that they've been planning to screw over. Poor people. They know they take up a significant population of their state, so they limit their freedoms rather than actually do the right thing and serving the people they were elected to protect. They're doing a good job of it too, covering it up by preventing voter fraud, a supposedly devastating practice committed in this country. A practice that in reality was only committed by 87 people... nationwide. 87 people obviously aren't going to be the deciding factor in a nation of more than 10 million people (I don't know the actual statistic on that, but I know it's at least that much).
Voting is a fundamental right. It's what this country was built on. The founding fathers were brilliant men and it's amazing what these politicians have done to fuck up their vision. Honestly, this concerns me more than anything else in the election year. The Tea Party and their corporate sponsors are quickly beginning to grip this nation with an iron fist and the general population is too blind and ignorant to see it. They've bought the news, they're buying elections, they're twisting laws around to regulate the way we live our lives. I'm not saying the democrats on my side are perfect angels either. Hell, the bullshit issues some of the people on my side pull out to try and distract from larger issues (the whole Chick-fil-a "scandal" being one) are contributing to the plague of stupidity devastating our nation. But unlike the Tea Party republican tactics, I don't see any thing sinister about it. The Tea party on the over hand is bringing up issues that we resolved a long time ago. Before this election, 98% of women took contraceptives, and now we're questioning their use? These guys are practicing Stalinism, and just like Stalin they're brainwashing anyone who disagrees with their policies to be enemies of "progress" enemies who go against their mindless patriotism. I know not all Republicans are bad people, I recognize that. But the ones that are have currently hijacked the party and they won't stop until they hijack the entire country with them.
To be fair, the democrats in congress appear to simply be giving up altogether. They're stepping aside and letting "conservatives" play the show as they've been doing for the past few years. They've become cowards. Cowards too fearful for what they stand for. They're too powerless to stop the onslaught of Corporations hoping to turn this shattered nation into a true to form dystopia. We need to stop them, we need to stop them now. What the Tea Party philosophy is doing to this country is quite unprecedented, and it may be hard to believe. It's not a conspiracy though, the signs are glaringly obvious. Mitt Romney is their pawn in a massive game of political chess. And if you vote for him, things are only going to get worse.
So, what have they been doing to compensate for it? Taking away voter rights of course. Tea Party governors across the nation have been introducing voter bills that make voting significantly more difficult for certain sections of the population. Voters without ready to access to computers, drivers licenses, cars.. basically the kind of people that they've been planning to screw over. Poor people. They know they take up a significant population of their state, so they limit their freedoms rather than actually do the right thing and serving the people they were elected to protect. They're doing a good job of it too, covering it up by preventing voter fraud, a supposedly devastating practice committed in this country. A practice that in reality was only committed by 87 people... nationwide. 87 people obviously aren't going to be the deciding factor in a nation of more than 10 million people (I don't know the actual statistic on that, but I know it's at least that much).
Voting is a fundamental right. It's what this country was built on. The founding fathers were brilliant men and it's amazing what these politicians have done to fuck up their vision. Honestly, this concerns me more than anything else in the election year. The Tea Party and their corporate sponsors are quickly beginning to grip this nation with an iron fist and the general population is too blind and ignorant to see it. They've bought the news, they're buying elections, they're twisting laws around to regulate the way we live our lives. I'm not saying the democrats on my side are perfect angels either. Hell, the bullshit issues some of the people on my side pull out to try and distract from larger issues (the whole Chick-fil-a "scandal" being one) are contributing to the plague of stupidity devastating our nation. But unlike the Tea Party republican tactics, I don't see any thing sinister about it. The Tea party on the over hand is bringing up issues that we resolved a long time ago. Before this election, 98% of women took contraceptives, and now we're questioning their use? These guys are practicing Stalinism, and just like Stalin they're brainwashing anyone who disagrees with their policies to be enemies of "progress" enemies who go against their mindless patriotism. I know not all Republicans are bad people, I recognize that. But the ones that are have currently hijacked the party and they won't stop until they hijack the entire country with them.
To be fair, the democrats in congress appear to simply be giving up altogether. They're stepping aside and letting "conservatives" play the show as they've been doing for the past few years. They've become cowards. Cowards too fearful for what they stand for. They're too powerless to stop the onslaught of Corporations hoping to turn this shattered nation into a true to form dystopia. We need to stop them, we need to stop them now. What the Tea Party philosophy is doing to this country is quite unprecedented, and it may be hard to believe. It's not a conspiracy though, the signs are glaringly obvious. Mitt Romney is their pawn in a massive game of political chess. And if you vote for him, things are only going to get worse.
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