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Saving The Republican Party

How the Jim Crow laws can be updated to meet the needs of the 21st century

Allan Milne Lees
5 min readApr 12, 2021
Image credit: Flagpole Magazine

God-loving Republican politicians across the USA are still reeling from the discovery that despite all previous gerrymandering, voter suppression, and outright intimidation, it’s still possible for a traitorous liberal baby-eating god-hating Democrat to garner sufficient votes that even the USA’s gloriously dysfunctional Electoral College system can’t prevent disaster befalling our great nation.

Obviously something must be done. And that something is to bring back much-needed Jim Crow laws. Across our land, more than 258 separate pieces of legislation are being promoted by patriotic Republican politicians to ensure that never again can such a calamity befall the greatest nation on Earth. While Georgia has been at the forefront of these essential efforts, many other right-thinking States are not far behind.

There is, however, a problem.

The good ol’ Jim Crow laws were enacted at a time when people knew that precious funds should not be squandered on pretending to educate the lesser races. So it was easy to insist on measures that meant would-be voters had to prove they could read and write. Especially in everyday foreign languages like Latin and classical Greek. When dark-skinned people attempted…

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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