Suppose Trump pulls out the win after these days of agonizing drama. Would Democrat voters - not political operatives, just regular folks who vote Dem - be willing to join hands with Republicans and insist on voter ID rules that prevent this from ever happening again?
It shouldn't matter who ultimately wins in 2020 - it sure as heck doesn't matter to me - but it seems like Repub voters are pretty disgusted with our Third World voting system no matter what, and Dems will be hopping mad if Trump ends up winning. Perhaps a bipartisan opening!
We could come together across party lines and resolve that we will never go through anything like this again. And if partisan elected officials arrogantly refuse to heed that bipartisan demand - well, it would tell us a lot about them, wouldn't it?
I will never understand the mindset of people who insist the right to vote is sacred, but treat ballots like toilet paper. The cognitive dissonance is astounding. Dirty politicians prey on cognitive dissonance like vultures prey on road kill. Let's stop feeding them
From this day forward, the answer to every stupid, dishonest argument against voter ID should be: "2020." Every time they start shucking and jiving about how it's too much to ask people to make the slightest effort to exercise their sacred right to vote, just say "2020."
There has got to be a huge bipartisan majority of voters who will emerge from this nightmare determined to never let it happen again. Let's cultivate that majority and bypass the political scam artists who foisted this on us. Let's show a little nonpartisan self-respect.
No one should be able to have it both ways any more, not after THIS. Either voting is a vital civic duty and solemn right that should be taken seriously - which will require a little EFFORT from us all - or it's a corrupt sideshow we can watch from our couches. It can't be both.
Let me put it this way: we're supposedly having this huge national and global discussion about how to exercise free speech without abusing it. Yes, free speech is a right, but we have to put some effort into using it responsibly!
The core premise of the gun control debate is sure, the 2nd Amendment gives you the right to keep and bear arms, but there are all sorts of restrictions on it, and some insist there should be a lot more. In other words, you have to put EFFORT into exercising that right carefully.
Why shouldn't that thinking apply to the sacred right to vote as well? Even more so, since it profoundly affects how much effort is required to obey the rules that govern responsible use of all the other rights? Why bend over backward for lazy voters, but not lazy gun owners?
It's a core conservative principle that rights always come with responsibilities - but it's not just a belief. It's an iron law of the universe. It's true whether your political philosophy accepts it or not. I give you the Great 2020 Election Shitshow as proof.
Let's cut the crap and put together that bipartisan majority that insists on treating the right to vote with responsibility. I know, everyone says Dems will never go for it. I'd like to put that to the test. We sure won't find that majority if we don't go looking for it. /end
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