[quote=@Penny]I am nervous because I hear this crap almost everyday. In person. I'm not adsorbing it from media in some passive way, it is my LIVED experience.[/quote]

Well I'm very sorry to hear that. For the record, your responses are... well not 'word for word' but [i]very similar[/i] to the noise from the media. Symone Sanders of CNN in particular. Apologies if I'm connecting dots that aren't connected -- it just all sounds rather familiar, that's all. 

[quote]I'm not a political historian but it is clear that the modern GOP are the heirs to the Jim Crow legacy. Southern Strategy blah blah. It is pretty easy to see which party is pushing for voter ID legislation which suppresses minority turn out.
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I take issue with that. Check this out:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odB1wWPqSlE[/youtube]

voter ID legislation is good policy. That it's harder to pick up a pack of smokes than it is to elect a president is [i]insane[/i] to me.