When I worked for a city Library years ago, we offered this service several times a month. We would sometimes have over a dozen people waiting for us to open. This really is a shame.
The destruction of our institutions is far-reaching and will have lasting consequences. Some of us may not live to see the return of American democracy
The GOP wish they could disenfranchise everyone who is not white, male and wealthy. With the SAVE Act they are deliberately reducing the ability of citizens to vote by requiring passports or certified birth certificates. It is akin to the poll tax in the Jim Crow South that prevented poor Black Americans from voting. Trump, the GOP and his billionaire sycophants don't believe in the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution. MAGA has disenfranchised itself in its quest to hurt their fellow Americans who they deem inferior. Too bad MAGA doesn't realize that the ruling Epstein class deems them inferior and not worthy of voting.
It's having an impact on bigger cities too...I live in a mid-size, very urban Northeast city and the outcry in the local papers and on the community websites has been intense. I can't even imagine how upset smaller communities and rural areas must be. Some of you here might be on to something regarding voter suppression intentions, but that could just as easily backfire on this regime.
OK. I need a passport now to vote, maybe to buy groceries. And many of the places where I could apply for a passport are now not allowed to accept my application. If I wanted to apply, I could be DAR and DTR, but without a passport I am essentially a stateless person unable to vote and liable to deportation to ???????. What do you suggest I do?
When I worked for a city Library years ago, we offered this service several times a month. We would sometimes have over a dozen people waiting for us to open. This really is a shame.
Another of the t administration's "death by a thousand paper cuts." Congress, "Quick! a band-aid!"
The destruction of our institutions is far-reaching and will have lasting consequences. Some of us may not live to see the return of American democracy
The GOP wish they could disenfranchise everyone who is not white, male and wealthy. With the SAVE Act they are deliberately reducing the ability of citizens to vote by requiring passports or certified birth certificates. It is akin to the poll tax in the Jim Crow South that prevented poor Black Americans from voting. Trump, the GOP and his billionaire sycophants don't believe in the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution. MAGA has disenfranchised itself in its quest to hurt their fellow Americans who they deem inferior. Too bad MAGA doesn't realize that the ruling Epstein class deems them inferior and not worthy of voting.
It's having an impact on bigger cities too...I live in a mid-size, very urban Northeast city and the outcry in the local papers and on the community websites has been intense. I can't even imagine how upset smaller communities and rural areas must be. Some of you here might be on to something regarding voter suppression intentions, but that could just as easily backfire on this regime.
OK. I need a passport now to vote, maybe to buy groceries. And many of the places where I could apply for a passport are now not allowed to accept my application. If I wanted to apply, I could be DAR and DTR, but without a passport I am essentially a stateless person unable to vote and liable to deportation to ???????. What do you suggest I do?