Sanders: ‘Onslaught of voter suppression’ in US must stop

Former US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders has said that “the onslaught of voter suppression” in the United States must stop. 

Sanders, who has previously called the US democracy an "oligarchy” where billionaires buy elections, on Sunday said that voter suppression is not acceptable. 

“This is a democracy. We can disagree on all kinds of issues, but taking away the rights of Americans to vote and to participate in our democracy is absolutely unacceptable. Period,” he tweeted. 

“In my view, there is no compromise when it comes to protecting the right to vote. We must stop the onslaught of voter suppression and make it easier, not harder to vote in this country,” he said in another tweet. 

In an earlier tweet, Sanders said Republican “legislatures are working overtime to deny Black Americans and young people the right to vote,” and added that “we must pass the For the People Act,” which is a bill in the US Congress intended to expand voting rights.

There’s no democracy in America; there never has been: Analyst

The 2020 US presidential candidates, like past White House contenders, underscore that American democracy is a sham and only favors the privileged class, says an author.

Republicans have been engaged in a massive voter suppression in the United States and democracy had experienced a significant decline under former Republican President Donald Trump, who kept attacking people's democratic freedoms on a regular basis, according to a study released in February 2019 by Freedom House, a US-based non-governmental group.

The organization warned that US democratic freedoms were eroding at rates similar to countries where democracy had been ultimately overtaken by authoritarianism.

The report put American democracy on the same level with Greece, Croatia and Mongolia, well behind its European allies such as Germany, France and Britain.

'For Entertainment Value Only': US fake elections exposed for the farce they are

The US "election farce should come with a warning label like they have on children

In an article for Press TV last year, American writer and commentator Daniel Patrick Welch said that the US fake elections have exposed for the farce they are, and that the US democracy is only for entertainment value.

“This election farce should come with a warning label like they have on children's toys, ‘Valid For Entertainment Value Only,’ otherwise you run the risk of mistaking it for a real election, where real change and real policies may be decided, as opposed to living under an oligarchy in which the election process is a sham. There's no policy discussion. There's no hope of change. There's nothing at all besides this ad hominem sandbox fight which makes for good television sometimes, although that display the other night was horrific, it is also is dangerously distracting from the truth. I mean, this is not a real thing going on here,” Welch wrote. 
 

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