Decline of Democracy

In 2010 the Republican Party swept to power in state governments across the country. With the corporate co-opted Tea Party movement fueling the enthusiasm for the Republican agenda, state legislatures quickly went to work addressing Tea Party concerns. The President of the United States was not a natural citizen. His birth certificate was a fake. Massive voter fraud must have brought him to office, I mean who would vote for a black man?

In more than a dozen states new laws have been put into place which make it more difficult for students and communities of color to exercise their right to vote. The United States Department of Justice had to intervine to block laws passed in Texas and South Carolina for violating the Voting Rights Act. The state of Texas is currently objecting to the continuation of the Voting Rights Act. The NAACP has been compelled to send a delegation to Geneva to petition the United Nations Human Rights Commission to bring attention to how these new laws threaten the voting rights of millions of US citizens. While most of these laws are being put into effect in the south, the state of Michigan has put in place the most reprehensible of these new laws.

Rick Snyder, the sitting Governor of Michigan, has pushed through a law, which has given him, no overstatement here, dictatorial powers to disincorporate entire municipal governments, fire elected officials, and the ability to put in power anyone of his choosing, with no oversight. Maddow gives a good rundown of the present situation in the Wolverine State:

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