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Rights Only for the Right People
All those rights Americans cherish, those fundamental human and political freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution, Republicans contend those aren’t really inalienable rights or anything solid or permanent like that.See, according to the GOP, some Americans are sub-citizens who don’t deserve rights equal to those enjoyed by, well, the right-wing. Republicans think they’re right, and anyone who disagrees doesn’t deserve rights.
Republicans managed to highlight that perverse plank in their political platform over the past several weeks as they proposed – and sometimes actually passed – legislation limiting the fundamental rights of specific groups of American citizens. That includes gay Americans, African-Americans, and Americans who are members of labor unions. Right-wingers sought to seize from these Americans their rights to vote, protest and live free from discrimination.
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No rights for union members, gays, African Americans, the disabled or young or old or poor, says the right-wing. No one’s rights are safe in their hands.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/04/1281992/-Rights-Only-for-the-Right-People
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for, she. The right for People to Love, Vote, and Unionize!
What is this.. the 20th Century?! No just the century of Koch funded draconian measures from hell.
