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The current Republican Party is all about taking the vote away from the people.
1. They work to make it harder for people to vote under the guise of voting integrity when the real aim is to suppress the votes of those generally supportive of Democrat candidates. Vigorously oppose the voting rights act.
2. Defend and promote the electoral college as all votes being equal would hurt their presidential candidates
3. Some (Huckabee) now proposing that voters no longer choose their US senators.
Add in their blatant actions in gerrymandering congressional districts so that the house does not proportionately reflect the nation at large. The GOP is doing all it can to prevent some people from voting and diminishing the effect of some people's votes.
The 17th Amendment, passed in 1912, required that each state is to elect two senators by direct popular vote. Prior to that the two senators were chosen by the state legislatures.
Amazing how when conservatives lose, they want to change the rules and take away the people's right to vote for who represents them. Imagine if state houses picked senators today. Those would be plum jobs handed out in a back room in exchange for political favors, campaign contributions or other kickbacks. It would turn the whole Senate into a swamp.
So it is not enough that the GOP has gerrymandered voting districts in their favor, and an electoral college devised when the US was an agrarian society that is unfairly weighted toward rural areas, now they want to fix the senatorial races too?
Huckabee needs to go preach to his choir--they are the only ones who listen to his nonsense.
Huckabee's wet dream is a full-on theocracy where the King James Bible is literally used as a science textbook and people can go to jail simply for who they love. Repealing the 17th Amendment would make that easier to achieve. He's influential but not that influential being that he's lost every time he's tried to run for President.
The 17th Amendment, passed in 1912, required that each state is to elect two senators by direct popular vote. Prior to that the two senators were chosen by the state legislatures.
Amazing how when conservatives lose, they want to change the rules and take away the people's right to vote for who represents them. Imagine if state houses picked senators today. Those would be plum jobs handed out in a back room in exchange for political favors, campaign contributions or other kickbacks. It would turn the whole Senate into a swamp.
The 17th Amendment, passed in 1912, required that each state is to elect two senators by direct popular vote. Prior to that the two senators were chosen by the state legislatures.
Amazing how when conservatives lose, they want to change the rules and take away the people's right to vote for who represents them. Imagine if state houses picked senators today. Those would be plum jobs handed out in a back room in exchange for political favors, campaign contributions or other kickbacks. It would turn the whole Senate into a swamp.
Yes, but how would it be different than it is now ?
That would be one way of getting money out of the senate races, and for that reason I doubt it would ever pass.
Oh right. So you think the very best way to get money out of politics is to just get rid of elections.
You're not thinking straight. The money would still be there. But with no campaign financial disclosure laws, we would have even fewer clues than we do now about whose money it is, where it comes from, and where it's going.
The 17th Amendment, passed in 1912, required that each state is to elect two senators by direct popular vote. Prior to that the two senators were chosen by the state legislatures.
Amazing how when conservatives lose, they want to change the rules and take away the people's right to vote for who represents them. Imagine if state houses picked senators today. Those would be plum jobs handed out in a back room in exchange for political favors, campaign contributions or other kickbacks. It would turn the whole Senate into a swamp.
Democrats did that in California when people tried to recall a senator from Fullerton. They even sued college students.
It is how conservatives think these days. The history of the USA since its founding has been expanding the voting franchise. Now since the franchise is universal, some conservatives want to role it back.
They think, let us make it more difficult to vote, or let's discredit the whole notion of voting with spurious claims of voter fraud.
But for some that is not enough.
They want to go back to the 1800s. That should not be a surprise though. The current republican party is not a forward looking party but a backward-looking, old, blubbery mass that has no soul, no ideas and, hopefully, no future.
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