Rick Scott was up by 50,000+ votes on Election Day, now they “found” many votes and he is only up 15,000 votes. “The Broward Effect.” How come they never find Republican votes?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2018
200 years ago, there was a class of people in the US known as slaves. They were conscripted to the Southern states to do the back breaking work on plantations...almost always picking cotton. A cash crop commodity for the plantation owners.
They would spend hours a day in heat and humidity picking cotton and carding it (removing the seeds from among the fibers). For most, the slaves were considered property and required to stay on that plantation under threat of their owners.
Every day, they would pick cotton, place it in baskets and heft those baskets on their backs to the carding house (later, the ginning house). That primary cotton was then taken by the owner and sold for a price to a broker representing a large industry (clothing and cloth).
Everyday, picking cotton and giving it to the owner for the owner’s benefit. The plantation owner had value in the cotton. The slaves picked it for him. The slaves had no investment in the cotton they were picking. They just did it. And if the owner was kind, he would clothe them, feed them and tend to their maladies.
Not all owners were that kind to their slaves.
Fast forward to 2018 where slavery is abolished, and the new cotton is votes. Why do citizens keep on pickin’ cotton (votes) and giving them to the owners? (Democrats)?
Your vote has value TO YOU, not them!
Keep the cotton you picked!
#walkaway
There’s more to the story starting around 1865.