The other day I ran a blog on the North Carolina Republican official who admitted and demonstrated his racism on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show.

Of course, Don Yelton was speaking for the increasingly right-wing and racist Republican Party.

I ended that blog by referring to ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Council. I referred to it as a conspiracy, which it is.

I realize to some readers that statement may seem extreme. But if you look at the scope of state legislative initiatives that ALEC has formulated and spread from state to state, it becomes clear how many of these legislative initiatives are designed to weaken, undercut, and undermine democracy and to decimate worker power.

The list of ALEC initiatives are very sobering:

The remarkably similar anti-worker and anti-union initiatives in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and many other states.

Very similar voter suppression and disenfranchising legislation in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Texas.

As the radical right-wing Republican Party has focused more on winning state legislative and gubernatorial campaigns, ALEC has pushed a coordinated state strategy that they hope will change the political climate and playing field in national campaigns by trying to make union political efforts irrelevant and destroy voter turnout efforts amongst Democratic base voters.

As the base of the radical right-wing Republican Party shrinks because of their bizarre policies — anti-science, anti-women, anti-people of color, anti-immigrants — they work to limit and undermine democracy and the will of the people. This is the most dangerous sort of conspiracy.

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