The silence is stunning at airports, movie theaters, DMV’s
and retail counters all across the country.
Not a peep about pulling out that ID and showing it to validate your
credit card, get the Senior Citizen/Student/Military discount, or to pass
through security to board the plane to your favorite vacation hot spot. In fact, I have been to a number of large
corporations lately that required signing in and presenting an ID, for security
purposes. If you would like to attend a
rally for your candidate, where discussion focuses on forcing production of an ID in order to vote is considered un-American, you must present a valid ID to enter the forum. Yet, in the face of clear evidence that
non-citizens, dead citizens, felons, and imaginary characters have registered
(and voted?) in our nation’s elections, we go berserk over the very simple
remedy.
Does it not
bother anybody else that non-citizens and others that do not actually possess
the right to vote in our country are indeed voting? Is it really that comforting knowing they are
probably voting for “your guy?” What
happens when they are not voting the way you want, and how will you know? Amidst this fairness craze, where is the
fairness in nullifying the vote of an honest citizen? These are just a few of the questions to be
considered.
What does it really say about the
strength of a position that is seemingly dependent on cheating the system in
order to validate it? The purveyors of
social fairness don’t actually understand cheating, and fail to consider its
effects. The very fact that people are
trying to register illegals, felons and dead persons in order to vote for their
position should disturb everyone. I find
that act more criminal than “buying” votes; in the final analysis we are all
parsing the term “buying”. Yes, in
Kentucky the going rate was $25-$50 cash, but just substitute the name of your
dearest program and you have your argument for a “purchased” vote. I suppose the cash transactions could
someday rise to the level of tripping my meter.
In the meantime, I’m comforted that I do not see rich liberals
voluntarily separating the cash from their wallet, or donating their entire
share of their successful father’s inheritance to charity.
The latest
voter ID laws are making it ridiculously easy to obtain an ID. Hell, I don’t know why people are not
volunteering to take any remaining folks to get one in order to preserve their
own right and vote. If it were my
neighbor, I’d drive them down there tomorrow.
I suspect that there are not many people that, properly motivated to,
oh, I don’t know, actually go vote, those people could not obtain an ID.
I love
these great college campus arguments.
They sound fantastic. The
disenfranchised, the class warfare against the less fortunate, or informed all
make great papers. Wow, I tear up a
little just writing the topics. We seem
to forget that we only had to play that game for the degree, then we leave the
professors behind so they can pontificate other bombastic ideas for more
grants, and we do actual work that makes society function and maintains the
country.
IDs are
required for so many things today that I assert that if one is motivated to do
whatever it is, in this case, vote; then they will certainly be able to get the
ID and do it. Yes, I admit I’m stumped
for the individual that had a car wreck and is in a coma at the local
hospital. Perhaps, that individual is not
quite ready to vote in this election, even though I’m sure one of those
machines indicates his/her desire.
I have
tendered cash to enough fast food workers only to walk them through the math
when I found the exact change in my pocket.
Every time I do it reaffirms that we have enough problems with the
idiots that do qualify to vote. But this
is not a eugenics argument, let them vote.
Privately, I will hope they will not find the polling place.
The concept
could not be simpler: one person, one vote.
That is fair on any and every scale.
I think the additional qualifiers of being a citizen and not having been
convicted of a felony, also stand up to the fair litmus, since we are voting
for how our country will be managed.
When a simple mechanism, such as an ID, comes along that ensures that
will occur, then bring it here NOW!
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