The deafening silence broken only by crickets chirping in the distant background concerning Hasselbeck's latest gambit dismays me.
I confess that I'm torn between wondering if Elizabeth Hasselbeck has a clue as to what happened the last time so-called "civics tests" were used to screen voters or if she's quite as clueless as she professes to be. Segregationist states, particularly in the Deep South, were used routinely to keep Afro-American (and occasionally dissident poor white) citizens from registering to vote and casting their ballots in general elections.
Or perhaps Hasselbeck DOES know. As more and more of America's former middle class falls into debt and poverty and as more and more fed-up centrists join progressives in opposing the Teapublicans, people like Hasselbeck and the people who give them their marching orders realize that corrupting the voting process by instituting so-called voter ID laws won't be enough to keep Republican politicians in office. So-called "civics tests" would be the next logical step in suppressing inconvenient voters who don't march in lockstep with the ever-rightward Republican agenda.
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