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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

the US, they never forgave Johnson for the '68 civil rights act

Johnson passed the '68 Civil Rights Act, but failed to actively enforce it. The subsequent Nixon/Reagan Southern Realignment involved some of the most deliberate and calculated voter disenfranchisement in the country’s storied history of voter disenfranchisement.

Consequently, states like Texas and Louisiana and Georgia and Florida can host enormous pools of liberal and progressive voters who are blacklisted, caged, gerrymandered, or outright felonized. The lay (white) American only kinda-sorta understands it is happening (thanks to the tsunami of “Record High Crime!” news hysterics), while voter turnout rates stay abnormally low relative to their global neighbors.

What we saw following the Kennedy assassination in '64 was functionally a coup. Blaming “the American voters” for the subsequent composition of Congress and the White House makes about as much sense as blaming Egyptians for el-Sisi or Russians for Putin. This is a white settler government running an armed occupation, not a liberal democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.

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