Is voter suppression the problem?

If we were to universally and automatically register everyone and make an effort to educate and make voting easy, a vote of this importance that involves a mere 40% of voters as in 2012 by that universal democratic matrix would not even be valid in most other countries with newer constitutions. That said any vote in the age of corporate mass media, government secrecy and corporate cash is always about lies, deception, hate and divisiveness and not issues and self interest. In essence we are not really voting anyway, it is just a big, sick show, manipulating public opinion with a lowest common denominator methodology.


In "The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy: Reporter Zachary Roth reveals how the GOP has been conspiring to control the country through gerrymandering, voting restrictions and gutting campaign finance laws. Frances Fox Piven calls The Great Suppression "a punchy and to-the-point chronicle of the desperate right-wing campaign to hold onto government power by limiting democratic rights." Voter suppression is despicable to be sure, but my point here is that even if we fix this, we are still all voting for the wrong things based on the carnival show we call elections.

Great timing for book promotion,. True as it is, this pitch coming out now is "woe is me Hillary lost" and would not have if more democrats voted but Hillary and her Neo-Liberal, war mongering and Wall Street friendly agenda is not in the self interest of the 99%  anyway so go figure why they would really care based on issues .  It's just a numbers game with thin margins where democrats loose when nobody is motivated and they cheat more than a little.  Apparently hating Trump was not sufficient motivation.

Don't get me wrong.  I applaud the research.  I do question the context of Trump vs Hillary.

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