What you gonna do about it?

Have you noticed?  Republicans are experimenting with new ways to cheat. By discouraging non-Republicans from voting. With voter picture ID laws. With severely limited voting hours.  All intended to discourage turnout. Republicans know that when relatively few people show up, their party generally does well.  Voters flocking in droves – well, that scares the heck out of Republicans. They lose those sorts of elections.  Happens that poor people -- more often than rich people – don’t have picture IDs. And they vote mostly for Democrats. Therefore, smart political strategy. That is, if you are a Republican.  You enact laws similar to the ones used by racists in the old Jim Crow South. Anything to keep the ‘undesirables’ from having a real say. Of course, that’s immoral act in a purported democracy. But when did that ever bother a Republican?  If the GOP had it’s druthers, only rich white folks and conservatives would be allowed to vote. No better way to assure Republican dominance. In Republican-controlled state legislatures, there’s also efforts to limit major elections to single, half-day voting. No  extended voting hours. To weekends. Or to round-the-clock hours that make it more convenient for middle class and poor working people to vote. Sad thing. Maybe Republicans will get away with these obscene shenanigans. Depends.  Tell me, my fellow Americans. What you gonna do about it? –Jim Broede