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In reply to the discussion: Is it me, or has there just generally been less anguish on DU about problems voting in WI? [View all]PATRICK
(12,356 posts)The salient issue, and suppressing black voters led and continued down the years to lead that salient, was just protecting the vote. From Bill Clinton and our awesome Senate to the unplanned run-ins with Theft 2016 structures, little has been even said and nothing done. They even gutted the VRA and campaign finance reform with barely a ripple in the party organization. The people being arrested now came from a populist movement to change Citizens United long before Bernie announced. Maybe Anonymous did something with the 2012 voting machines. certainly no professional Democrat did much of anything. What exactly is that profession anyway if it isn't about securing votes in all senses of the word?
No the theme this year was not even to have Dems at the polls at all and when surprisingly we have a contest outside the script, the point is moot that the real problems exposed are mostly due to rubbing up against strong voter suppression tactics cemented in by GOP crooks. And it's so damn obvious that unless the public can do anything about that themselves nothing will change at all. Of course no one talks about the voting machines and the man in the middle adjustment of the tallies, etc.
Which is why the "wise" script calls for an unopposed coronation and a Fall blowout and an obliging GOP poltroon candidate. A script written in erasable pencil it seems. Kerry and Obama and others were asked about the crooked giveaway of a margin or two to the GOP.
The kindergarten response: We are going to win very very big! If that was the case maybe they better make sure the candidate actually motivates that human wave of partially counted citizens and maybe try just a little bit to maybe make it a bit of an issue about our right to vote and maybe what treason actually means?