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Right winger Paul Weyrich: “I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. [O]ur leverage in the elections …goes up as the voting populace goes down."
That was 1980. He was being 100% honest about his approach. The far right wants to impose their toxic worldview on the rest of us, the majority. And they’ve been systematically doing the Weyrich plan ever since:
-gerrymandering legislatures to keep the majority locked out.
- changing rules and laws to make voting more difficult in every way, BY targeting voters who they know will oppose their agenda (voters of color, young voters especially)
- purging voters by the millions to remove them from the political space entirely
- intimidating voters by the DeSantis-style arrests we are now seeing; so some voters choose not to vote out of fear
- as much as possible, making elections about any topics that are NOT their core issues that they know are toxic (think caravans & migrant flights to… …take abortion bans out of the news cycle). The last thing they want is straight-up referenda on their issues as happened in Kansas. Because they know the majority oppose them. That’s why we see so much toxic disinformation come election time (Ie. Police budgets are up all over)
It’s not hard make clear how Republican corrupt and undemocratic governance is generating disastrous outcomes for everyday Americans (4 days of school a week, broken energy grids, crumbling towns, student debt, failing schools, poor health care, extremism, etc)
The truth is, THEY largely have
indefensible records due to unaccountable government.
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