Michael Waldman

From the beginning, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought to right to vote, others have fought to stop them. Waldman traces the full story from the founders' debates to today's challenges: a wave of restrictive voting laws, partisan gerrymanders, the flood of campaign money unleashed by Citizens United. The result is a compelling story of our struggle to uphold our most fundamental democratic ideals.

The Fight to Vote

Dimitris Papastergiou

When your whole point of view on any topic/subject is "when this happened back in XX's, humanity did a great thing and *insert minority here* could vote." ...then you've lost me. 

That kind of phrasing or thinking is bullshit in my opinion. That's like a mother/father saying "I take care of my children"... YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT, you stupid fuck.
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE fucking civilised and fucking good. We're not supposed to be selfish and racist or anything fucking dumb thing. 

The right to vote has been fought for since the first days of America's independence and remains a core issue for the country today. Especially today. And pardon me for me and for the rest of the outside of 'Murica world for thinking 'muricans are stupid. Simply for voting for someone like Trump. 

And of course I have american friends and such, and Thor know how much they hated their whole country when that happened and all the shit I've heard from them about it and whatnot. But c'mon.
It was one step forward, not 1 step forward 2 steps back.

Anyways... on my main problem here:

When you write "Major *gains* have been made over generations, including granting the vote to African Americans and women" ....I'm just here pissed at your phrasing. I'm not here to judge the way you write of course, because that would mean I'm reading your book which I purchased--OH WAIT!.. Fuck that shit.

That's like saying Lincoln was a hero and whatnot. Whatever. He did what EVERYONE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO. And for me, being me, meaning I'm fucking suspicious as fuck, that brings us to Lincoln, I didn't know the dude from a can of paint to trust that his motives was pure and honest to stop slavery. 
What was in it for him? Maybe he was the best dude ever. Maybe he wasn't. It was GOOD what he did. But that doesn't change the fact that we're all fucked up and in them old days of yore, they were super fucked and super dumb on common sense stuff as "voting" if you will. 

Not even gonna go into the whole slavery thing, Lincoln had slaves too. Everyone did back then. Slavery still exists now. And no, I don't mean the mind being slave working 8hrs a day and whatever. SERIOUS SLAVERY. Not that hippie stuff.

Anyway, getting off topic kinda here. Book was ok.

No need to read it, unless you're into politics. Better books to read about the rights to everything out there.

Whatever happened happened back then, it shouldn't happen that way, but it did, cuz humans suck. What happens now is not worse, but humanity still needs lots of shit to get better. Duh. And US for sure needs a lot too. From voter ID laws and the corrupting influence of money in politics (I should know about corrupt politicians, I'm Greek.) present new battles in the war to preserve American democracy and democracy in general.

The Fight to Vote

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