The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth

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  chrisxiii
  October 15th, 2018
  

  What cherished values? The Electoral College? Oh wait it’s the Democrats who want to abolish that!

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  chrisxiii
  October 15th, 2018
  

  What cherished values?
  High unemployment?
  Low economic growth?

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  qwerty133
  October 15th, 2018
  

  

  this is a great book compiles with my code uniformly

  orange man bad

  -Npc

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  lakealex07
  October 15th, 2018
  

  More liberal lies and misdirection. They (the liberals) are the ones that are the party of “Jim Crow” and segregation, not conservatives. Do your own research rather than listening to a liberal snowflake melting down and screaming lies.

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  Chipy25
  October 15th, 2018
  

  lakealex07
  First of all, the talking point you are trying to push only works with the party names (Democrats and Republicans), not labels (liberals and conservatives).

  Second, by that logic, Democrats (or “liberals”) are also the party of state rights and free enterprise, while Republicans (or “conservatives”) are against private property (slaves) and states’ rights (slavery and segregation within states) and for big government, progressive change instead of maintaining tradition (abolition of slavery), and suspending habeas corpus and represent the progressive movement (Teddy Roosevelt). In fact, wasn’t it a Republican-controlled big government the one that invaded the southern states and forced them to submit to the federal government’s will, violating their freedom to secede from the Union if they so wished?

  Also, weren’t the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that finally ended the Jim Crow laws (after the Supreme Court destroyed much of it) proposed and passed by Democratic presidents? And wasn’t it around the time this was happening that the Republicans Goldwater and Nixon were starting the Southern Strategy to use racism to appeal to southern whites, inviting and welcoming the racist, conservative Democrats from the South (remind me how that area votes these days…) into the Republican Party, something several RNC chairmen have apologized for in recent times?
  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy)

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  chrisxiii
  First of all, the Electoral College isn’t a “cherished value”, it is an undemocratic institution. While its intended purpose of balancing the influence of the states is clear and understandable, its undemocratic nature is undeniable (2000 and 2016 being the most recent cases) and unless I’m mistaken the USA has as one of its most “cherished values” democracy, so…

  Before I go on, I should note that I don’t like the Democrats, but one can’t deny the numbers, the facts:
  https://zfacts.com/job-creators

  Also, since we’re discussing modern (neoliberal) Democrats and (neoconservative) Republicans, it is important to check the numbers from the time both parties became what they are now (starting with Reagan for the GOP and Clinton for the Democrats):
  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-vs-republicans-on-the-economy-it-is-not_us_57c87f80e4b06c750dd912b6

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  BigFinishFan
  October 15th, 2018
  

  

  America is a Constitutional Republic not a Democracy, specifically to stop any one State from dictating the entire election, without the Electoral College California would have decided the 2016 Presidential Election on it’s own, Think on that for a bit.

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  BigFinishFan
  October 15th, 2018
  

  PS The Democrats are the ones who set up & funded the KKK, oops!

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  caesar963
  October 15th, 2018
  

  Good, if broad, survey, Chipy.
  However, unfortunately, they all seem to have “racial” strategies.
  Sobering to look at what LBJ said about African-Americans after he signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 - “I’ll have those (offensive word) voting Democratic for 200 years!”
  It does explain why that party is obsessed with “race” (which doesn’t exist), and toxic identity politics. Using “race” instead of respecting the content of people’s characters.

  Carter supported the disgusting, human-rights abusing Apartheid regime in South Africa.

  Clinton increased the black prison population exponentially with legislation which had a blatantly prejudicial effect.
  Clinton also appalled Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate. “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us our coffee.” He also dismissed Obama as another hopeless candidate “like Jesse Jackson.” The Clintons showed their true colours by trying to marginalise Obama as merely “a black candidate.”
  They turned the campaign into a race conflict. Obama didn’t do that, and white voters in the early states didn’t do it. Obama did actually “go high” on that one.
  Clinton also complained that it was his wife’s “turn” - no sense of entitlement there, then!

  Why did the Democrats never seriously consider a full re-brand, given their appalling, disgusting history and profile? Can it be a lingering, residual sympathy and willingness to exploit race for electoral advantage?

  (It’s also always necessary to distinguish between the concepts of democracy and republic, as BigFinishFan helpfully did)

  Modern Democrats are still prepared to weaponise racism, so we can see how deeply ingrained it is.

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  TotallyDisenfranchised
  October 17th, 2018
  

  @BigFinishFan, I know I’m old school, but perhaps if the US schools weren’t so worried about being politically correct and offending someone’s delicate sensibilities by having kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily, they may begin to have a clue as to what you are talking about.

  I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Thomas Jefferson admitted the Electoral College method was flawed, but as he said it was the best solution they could come up with for the states with low populations to be represented.

  The question that you should ask is why the Democrats have, until recently, fought against eliminating the Electoral College, and why they refuse to require voter IDs.

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  Jiminy Cricket
  October 21st, 2018
  

  The Great Suppression: “Voting Rights”. Dead people have the right to vote, requesting an ID suppresses that right.

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  bosk
  October 24th, 2018
  

  “The founding documents have built in ways to undo the advances of a democracy. For example, the Article V and the convention of states. The Republicans will use Article V to repeal the peoples’ right to directly elect Senators.”

  There is so much wrong with those few sentences which directly reflects the massive errors in this pulp fiction disguised as thought out reasoning.

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  Constra
  October 25th, 2018
  

  anyone else stuck at 99%?

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  Damonn
  June 29th, 2019
  

  I have been trying to download this for several weeks. It’s stalled at 99.91%.

  Anybody know why the first file won’t download all the way?

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  vhrocks
  January 20th, 2021
  

  please seed baby

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth
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  apollo60
  May 23rd, 2021
  

  Tripe and garbage

  The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy - Zachary Roth

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