Talking Bag

AMOK TIME

North Carolina’s Legislative Coup Shows What Voter Suppression Will Look Like Under Trump

Republicans have turned North Carolina into a laboratory for subverting democracy.

(Ari Berman at The Nation.com)

How Voter Suppression Helped Pave Way for a Legislative Coup in North Carolina

(Ari Berman at Democracy Now.org)

The U.S. is a strong supporter of democracy overseas... when it's good for American business interests. When the will of a people supports their own interests and not U.S. companies, a coup and a brutal dictator usually solves the democracy problem. Since crushing democracy has worked so well for so long in our foreign policy, it has become standard operating procedure at home. 

U.S.A Inc. is not much of a democracy, even that rag The Washington Post knows about it.

U.S. elections ranked worst among Western democracies. Here’s why.

(The Washington Post)