The GOP Contra Democracy

This column by Charles Blow of The New York Times contains the most astonishing confession I have read in over 40 years of reading political journalism.  I quote:

Last week Rob Gleason, the Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, discussed the effects of his state’s voter ID laws on last year’s presidential election, acknowledging to the Pennsylvania Cable Network: “We probably had a better election. Think about this: we cut Obama by 5 percent, which was big. A lot of people lost sight of that. He won — he beat McCain by 10 percent; he only beat Romney by 5 percent. I think that probably voter ID helped a bit in that.”

There's no way to read that imbecilic, fascist statement without concluding that the modern Republican Party, the political descendants of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Eisenhower, has absolutely no faith in an open democracy.  It can only win if you don't vote.

And if you don't vote, you're no better than the Republicans are, and deserve what you get.  So please vote.  Don't drag me and the rest of the people who care down with you.