Weyrich died in 2008, but the GOP is still applying his lesson today. If voting really didn’t matter, then why would Republicans constantly try so hard to block so many people from voting?

Related: 

1. How Jeb Bush disenfranchised 94,000 legally registered and eligible Black & Latino Florida voters in the y2k Bush v. Gore presidential election

2. Voter ID laws: a Republican tool for mass voter disenfranchisement

3. Why people who claim that voting doesn’t matter are WRONG

4. Black, Latino and Asian people targeted on voter “crosscheck” lists

5. Fox News - the propaganda wing of the Republican Party

There is a history and a methodology to voter disenfranchisement in America. So the next time you hear one anyone claim that “voting doesn’t matter, why even bother,” please understand that not only is such advice wrong, but through inaction, disaffected voters who refuse to vote are actually helping to elect regressive right-wing politicians…just as Paul Weyrich knew

Civil Rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr, Fannie Lou Hamer, the Black Panthers, and James Chaney all understood the importance of registering people and getting them to the polls to vote. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise: Voting still matters. It always has