It is particularly germane to remind South Carolina’s Indian-American, Republican, and female governor that in advocating for voter ID laws, she selectively ignores the fact that she wouldn’t have been allowed to vote under similar measures that this proposal reminds not a few of us of from the good old Jim Crow days. God love these politicians who read not one lick of a history book.
Gov. Haley, you may be in the club now, but like every other minority who has decided to throw in his or her lot with the current incarnation of the Republican Party, expect little sympathy from the rest of us when (when, not if) they turn on you and remind you that you are an Other (doubly so because you are a woman.) It comes down the pike eventually.
“Voter fraud” appears to be a problem created to fit a solution already agreed upon for entirely different reasons.
(via the Smithian)
