This article (via Manan Shukla), is in response to the post that follows it. The Atlantic article provides support for the arguments made in that article by including the remarks of another Washington staffer who has made similar observations about the American political system. Low information voters are at the center of the problem. The GOP has been better at marketing to this group, and it is aggressively pursuing a strategy of denying access to the polls among low information voters who are likely to vote for Democrats.
The issue that we are dealing with today is not the horse race between the two parties that is cultivated by the media. What is at issue is our system of democracy. The forces at work in our society are not sympathetic to the democratic process unless they can control the outcome. Democracy is fragile and most of us take it for granted. These two articles should serve as a wake up call to Americans who would like to preserve our democratic system.
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