Voting Rights Obstructionists Still Refighting The Civil War

When it comes to fear of African-America voting, you can draw a direct line from secessionist sympathizer John Wilkes Booth's oft-quoted moment of decision to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln when Booth heard Lincoln declare, just days earlier in his Second Inaugural address, that the right to vote would be extended to southern Black Americans...to decades of poll taxes and literacy test chicanery...to the GOP ballot-box obstructionism accelerating right now, according to the The New York Times throughout the South...to even Wisconsin.

Wisconsin! Previously, it was On Wisconsin, and Forward...but now it's backwards Wisconsin, imitating Texas and the former Confederacy.

How undemocratic, pathetic and ironic is it that Lincoln's once-proud Republican Party, with a shrinking core of supporters and idea, is so desperate to retain control for its corporate and already- excessively-privileged base that it would manipulate basic American election processes and ballot access - - rights for which a Civil War was fought and for which civil rights activists and citizens also died to preserve.