[Marxism] Re: Pearl Harbor, etc., correction

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Some grammatical inprovement, plus a little more focus, in the first 
paragraphs. Unfortunately, there is often a break between my thought 
and my text and even when there isn't, it needs some tinkering.]

There are conspiracies within the ruling class, but the critical 
conspiracy is the ruling class’s conspiracy against the working class.

When the U.S. Constitution was written, the North conspired with the 
South to fold in its slave population (not citizens at the time) with 
the overall population by allowing a slave to count as 3/5 of a person. 
This meant that the South got to use its non-citizen slave population 
for purposes of both Congressional Representation and voting for the 
President.

This is well-known notorious information, right? But it got worse under 
the fascist system referred to as Jim Crow.

For under that system, former slaves and their descendants were almost 
completely disenfranchised. No longer 3/5; for population purposes, 
they were now counted as a whole person, but not allowed to vote.

So they went from 3/5 to 5/5, but still without legal political power. 
The result was that the racist anti-working class Democrat Party got 
more representatives and an even heavier weight in the Electoral 
College than they had under the original system. This was not changed 
until the mid-1960s and it took mass action by tens of thousands of 
black citizens to achieve this.

No there was a true conspiracy! The federal government had the power to 
regulate federal elections, but refused to do so under both Democrat 
and Republican administrations, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 
treated as a virtual saint by most liberals and the present Democratic 
Party.
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