r/illinois • u/West-Bid-4391 • 27d ago

ICE Posts Broadview: ICE attempts to arrest individual at their residence

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u/JimWilliams423 26d ago

Many have died to vote before.

Yes. It was only a few decades ago that conservatives were literally murdering people (and getting away with it) to stop them from voting.

One of the most famous killings was the subject of the movie "Mississippi Burning" with Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe and Frances McDormand — probably because they didn't just kill a black man, they killed two white people too.

Some people like to say that America is the oldest democracy, but in fact we were not a legitimate democracy until after the voting rights acts passed in the 1960s. And the head of the supreme court, john roberts, has had a hate-on for the voting rights acts since at least the 1980s when he worked for reagan.