This is not a comment from a progressive blog. This is a direct quotation from the current platform of the Texas Republican Party. (I'm a longtime resident of the state.)
Quote:We urge that the Voter Rights Act of 1965, codified and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized.
They can't even get the title of the act right; it's the
Voting Rights Act, not the "Voter Rights Act."
Whats next? The repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Act? A return to
Plessy vs. Ferguson? As far as my politics are concerned, say they're outdated. Say I haven't kept up with the times. I don't care because this is a moral issue to me, not a political or ideological one.
As someone who grew up under Jim Crow and saw (at least to a degree) just how terrible it was, there is no way I could ever vote for any candidate of such a party. I would have to violate my conscience just as much as I would to vote for a candidate who actively supported abortion on demand -- which, granted, leaves no one for me to vote for. Well, so be it!
Again, I'm just a nonvoter. Again, for the record, I have never voted for Obama: I voted for McCain in 2008 (which I now regret), and I simply did not vote in 2012. I've made a point to not follow his administration. The state of politics is depressing enough for me without my being constantly informed as to the charges and the counter-charges, etc. I've been disappointed by administrations before. In other words, I'm not exactly partisan here.
I've noticed that only a few liberal members of A2K have expressed any outrage over what's happened to the Voting Rights Act. Apparently, this landmark legislation is a minor concern to them.
See, I call it as it is. No wonder I'm not popular in this forum. Anyone here who doesn't follow the political party line of the majority of the members, whether he's a Republican/conservative or is
not, is automatically categorized as an outcast. Just like me. But I've always been different from one majority or another in one way or another. That's the price of thinking for yourself.