Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcasts, in which we shall

learn about the long history of voter suppression and why some want to suppress the vote in

the first place.

Your first hint is because their policies are deeply unpopular.

But first, to clarify, I'm supposed to be on a combination of vacation and also doing

a bunch of work tasks separate from producing episodes right now, so why am I talking to

you instead of just posting a rerun without any commentary as I'd promised?

Well, there's this sort of classic comic, internet comic that sort of explains a little

internet culture.

The guy is just furiously typing on his computer and his partner from the other room calls,

hey, you're coming to bed.

And he says, I can't right now, someone is wrong on the internet.

I've been going through a little bit of that myself.

I've been encountering people being wrong on the internet and that has been a major distraction.

And I thought, should I try to ignore it, which is really hard, or should I get it off my

chest and then move on?

And so I decided to get it off my chest and move on.

So what I have read today is not a rerun episode.

It is a remix episode with some old clips that are as relevant today as ever, but with

a huge, totally new commentary at the beginning to get us started.

First just honorable mention, I can't tell the story because if I start in on it, I'll

talk for 10 straight minutes, but I had some choice comments to make about more people

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