Voter Suppression & the Culture of Exclusion | National Catholic Reporter

Voter Suppression & the Culture of Exclusion | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Voting is entirely about power and the denial of power.  The reason that conservative and conservative Catholic  forces say nothing about voter suppression is that they side with the powerful, not the poor - and certainly not with the poor who do not look like them.  If they thought they could get away with it, they would suggest adding more restrictions, such as banning burkhas in the polling place.  They speak for their coalition, not for justice - indeed, they want to step as far back from justice an into earned power as any other reactionaries. They will also lie - just listen to some of the outlandish advertisements this month.   I would say shame on them, but they have no shame - which says everything about what has to be done in the future to make things better.  The only way to fight reactionaries is radicalism, however moderate liberal voices in either the Church or the Democratic Party seem to have no stomach for such things.