A false oligarch narrative of violence and fear and communism/socialism/the radical left while wealth trickles up. Southern Plantation owners to Western mine owners and cattle ranchers to oil barons suppressing slaves, then sharecroppers and miners, then migrant workers and nursing home aides. Women and people of color disenfranchised by very wealthy white men and their fellow travelers. Equality for all makes progress, to be trounced by oligarchy. "How the South" is about the major warp and weft threads of our national story. Norquist recently took millions in government small business coronavirus "bailout" money for his anti-tax foundation because, priorities. Pick a Republican with enough digits to handle a pen to become President of the United States." Very sharpie of him. We just need a president to sign this stuff. CarlaĪfter the 2010 census, when the Republican Party successfully outmaneuvered the Democratic party and gerrymandered state and congressional districts, Grover "I hate taxes" Norquist said: "We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go.
An inspiring and suspenseful story of claiming democracy for all, and the playbook for the change we all need. Cue the fair voting activists, like Katie Fahey in Michigan with her "Voters Not Politicians" drive, mathematicians using Monte Carlo simulations in court to disprove the fairness of gerrymandered districts, and Stephanie Hofeller who handed over to Common Cause evidence that her father had enabled a generation of suppressive voter ID laws in the name of non-existent voter fraud. From the petty (not letting college students vote in the state where they go to college - without a car - if they don't change their driver's license address) to the venal - giving Native Americans only three hours a month in which they can register to vote in a building hours from their residence, and only if they have a street address (which few do) - the will of incumbents to keep their personal entitlements knows no bounds. In a state-by-state and tactic-by-tactic review, Daley shows how state legislatures and county governments have tried to suppress voting by voters they believe will not vote for their party. Felons in some states lose their right to vote - forever! - and needless to say, the law is applied unequally by race. Fun fact: President Trump may have committed felony voter fraud in Florida, when he initially listed his residence as 1600 Pennsylvania on his voter registration.
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