I’ve recently learned not only that you are right about your vote not being protected (although there is technically nothing else I disagree with here), but how right you are. The facts on the record I’ve been reading about, the disenfranchisement of minority voters—with black Americans target first of course, at over 5 million—is the biggest wave of disenfranchisement in American history. Since 1982, laws have arise in states not disenfranchising the right to vote from American citizens to clearly making laws based on arbitrary reason to give states the power to take away the voting frights from American citizens and then practicing it. Voting rights which are supposed to be foundational and unalienable in a democracy are not alienated in 48 states out of 50. What started as “mass incarceration” in 1982 from the “war on drugs” ended up in practice to be the war on black and brown American voters through mass disenfranchisement. It’s the first time in American history that such a practice and such laws occurred on a national scale. The first time.
The gains of Civil Rights were massively reversed by Project 1980, dreamed up and planned by the Heritage Foundation, the same one that effectuated this Project 2025. The next four presidents since 1980 engaged in the biggest incarceration wave on earth ever, and by 2011, according to the EJI, America—the richest and most powerful country and democracy—have jailed 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Blacks and browns composed the majority (50 percent black, 20 percent brown and 30 percent white), which meant that all the states enacting new and old laws stripped away the right to vote by arbitrary reasons—or alienated unalienable the right to vote from citizens. That event was deceptively not called what it was national disenfranchisement.
Instead of just disenfranchising black American voters in the southern states, it was not done nationally in 48 states. Only two states—Maine and Vermont—allow all people convicted of something to vote, whether on parole, on probations, or even in prison. Only 2. Worse than before 1965. Nationalized. It is and remains an insurrection against democracy that Reagan won with the Heritage Foundation firmly behind him and planned out. He won by cheating in the October surprise, as proven in a book by receipts showing the arms shipments to Iran to stop the hostage release. I’m disgusted thoroughly and I hate that you are right and even more right. They (democrats) celebrate Civil Rights leaders like MLK and Malcolm X, who were champions of democracy to be clear, but they do it only to deceive us in thinking that war of black American voters was over when really it hadn’t even begun.
I can’t vote for either party ever again after this mass deception perpetrated against my fellow Americans who fought for my rights, like Rosa Parks, Ida B Wells, and other fabulous black women who stand up. If there is New Black Woman Party or the Justice for Minority American Party or something, I’ll join. While I feel bad for Harris who was clearly in retrospect plumped up to lose and only antagonize whites to vote for Trump and depress Democrats not to vote for a woman and black woman at that, I can’t pretend both parties who engaged in mass disenfranchised are on my side, the side of unalienable rights. Voting for a party I believe in is far more important that voting for a party that constantly loses and deceives us, starting a genocide like Biden or mass jailing like Clinton (1994 Crime Bill, canceling welfare—both aimed at black Americans and the poor to keep them down instead of lift them up) that only led to mass disenfranchisement and voter repression by demoralization—is wrong morally, spiritually, and one hundred percent against the foundational principles of democracy. To think Biden just apologized for the native indigenous genocide while fully supporting the one in Gaza is the perfect example of mass deception they engage it. At least Malcolm and King both said that at least with conservatives (like Trump) they knew where they stood and those people said who they were.
Stay strong and carry on. Now we need your voice more than ever.