On The Streets Of My Neighborhood…
By Mitch Berg
…it’s easier to vote than it is to check out a library book. Than it is to buy groceries. Than it is to cash a check, to get a prescription, or to take out a small business loan, or to adopt a child who just needs love.
March 17th, 2016 at 7:43 am
It’s not politically correct to say it, but if a person does not do what it takes to rent an apartment or buy a home, get a job, buy groceries, and other things that are normal participation in a society, do we really want that person voting? We are talking about the ultimate in low information voters, to put it mildly.
March 17th, 2016 at 7:50 am
bikebubba….I make a related point about ballot languages. The Fed’l gov’t is forcing various cities to print ballots in numerous languages. My point is that if you don’t speak English, how do you get information on the candidates.
March 17th, 2016 at 1:49 pm
Voting fetishists are like cargo cultists. They see that functional governments have voting so they imagine voting creates functional governments. It doesn’t -see North Korea and Cuba.
Getting more ignorant peasants to vote for Maximum Leader doesn’t make the government function better; on the contrary, One Ignorant Peasant – One Vote dilutes and diminishes the value of everyone else’s vote.
March 18th, 2016 at 12:35 pm
If this is your neighborhood, you really need to move.
I’ve never had to show ID to buy groceries. I put the groceries on the conveyor belt, cashier rings it up and I hand over my money.
Nor have I had to show ID to get a prescription filled.
Finally, requiring voters to have a driver’s license or similar ID forecloses a small number of instances of voter fraud at the cost of disenfranchising a larger number of valid voters — https://goo.gl/4RjOFL
Or are y’all also going to require years of tax returns as for SBA loans or background checks and verifications as in adoptions?
March 18th, 2016 at 12:46 pm
@Joe Soaked If you exclude “ignorant peasants” from voting you’ll exclude a sizable portion off your party’s base. After all, Sen. Lindsay Graham says “about 40 percent of the Republican primary voters believe that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim.”
March 18th, 2016 at 12:48 pm
Sorry, I didn’t see that autocorrect changed Doakes to Soaked until after I hit send and apparently I can’t edit it.