Kindness is Punk

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  • This is historically false. While protests and activism created the pressure, the actual mechanisms that granted rights were legislative votes.

    • The 19th Amendment required a two-thirds vote in Congress and ratification by 36 states.
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were bills passed by Congress and signed by a President.
    • During the Civil Rights era low black voter turnout was a direct result of voter suppression (poll taxes, literacy tests, violence). The entire point of the movement was to secure the right to vote so they could participate.
    • The New Deal was passed through electoral politics
    • The Affordable Care Act expanded healthcare to millions.

    Respectfully you are making shit up and being disrespectful to those who fought for this.

    Conversely, it was voting that actively reversed the machine recently. The overturning of Roe v. Wade happened because a specific political coalition won elections and appointed Supreme Court justices. If voting doesn’t matter, why did the religious right spend 50 years obsessing over it to achieve their goals?