Could they be any more detached from reality?
Via Red Alert Politics:
While it’s no secret progressives aren’t crazy about voter identification laws, panelists at Generation Progress’ 2013 Make Progress Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday did little to hide their discontent, even going so far as to call the laws “crazy f**king barriers” and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Voting Rights Act “trash.”
“If you’re able to start the conversation [about voting] earlier, you’re able to change the culture around what it means to be a citizen, what it means to vote, and really empower people from an earlier age so that even when they’re facing these crazy f***ing barriers, they have all the will and desire to go out and vote anyway,” Christina Sanders, the state director for the Texas League of Young Voters Education Fund, said.
Sanders and the rest of the panelists participating in the “Expanding Democracy: The War on Voting and the Fight to be Heard” session were up in arms over the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, believing that it will just lead to further voter suppression throughout the U.S.
“Let me tell you, that Supreme Court ruling was trash. It was absolute trash. Let’s just be real. That was trash,” Sanders said.
“It’s a hard story to tell in the sense that, you know, people want to say we’ve moved beyond Jim Crow,” Amanda Brown, national political director of Rock the Vote, added. “Yeah, totally, that’s awesome that we’ve made that progress, but like, a voter ID bill is still a modern-day poll tax. It still costs money to go get it.”