Justice Jackson is educating Alabama about the 14th Amendment

[TigressDem]

33. You are welcome, but I am learning as I go too.

These connections that Justice Jackson made brought clarity to the situation that I hadn't thought deeply about before. Because to me, VRA "had to be" a continuation of making the situation better. Why else would it have been brought forth and debated and enacted? I trusted that this was a good thing, knew some things about it and went on with my life.

Until the haters, the stupid, racist bastards tried to make this crazy point, I would have thought no one would be so stupid to challenge it, least of all anyone with a law degree.

Honestly, when the government isn't so corrupted and we aren't on the verge of civil war, it's easy to take for granted that as long as it works, it's working.

But when We The People become the army of the many between those who would oppress and destroy our Democracy we have to wade in and educate ourselves to the intricacies so we can make the right decisions at the voting booth.

It's exhausting.

I did have a Dad who loved history and told me to always keep an eye on the rich for the sake of Democracy. He taught me what he knew, but his education was limited. He did what he could to see that mine wasn't.

I grew up in California where the schools WERE more progressive and even then I didn't learn as much history as I've had to dig into since W *ush and the crap that went on in Florida that took away Gore's chance to get in and deal with Climate change.