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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Your Required Reading

Emperor Palpatine doesn't want you to vote.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/eric-holder-voting-rights-6616701

Charlie Pierce takes on one of the most pernicious tactics of the modern GOP: Voter suppression.  Voter suppression is done under the guise of preventing voting fraud, which - as far as anyone has been able to determine despite massive amount of study - DOES NOT OCCUR on anything like scale.  Someone somewhere probably voted twice, but no one has pointed to a trend or a movement.

So to solve a problem that doesn't exist, the GOP has reinstituted poll taxes.  Just read the thing.

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