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Roughly 1/5 of the population is functionally incompetent. The number is remarkably stable over time, and varies between studies by basically the surveysâ margins of error.
Democrats cope with this fact by making student loans cheaper, which does nothing for the millions of people who couldnât make it through college if it were free. Republicans cope by trying to make sure the dummies donât vote.
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This convoluted reasoning could more simply be explained by calling it âputting lipstick on a pig.â
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There is no legal reason why âdummiesâ canât have a political opinion or vote. I donât believe that there is a competency test for voting either. If theyâre that impaired, voting is probably not something theyâre capable of, so the cure, again, is in search of a problem that doesnât factually exist.
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Not a democracy, until people vote for bans on gay marriage. Then it is. A republic is still a form of a democracy. Always a dumb argument.
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That 1/5 of the population is the TEA Party base no doubt.
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Sure, sure⌠a philosophical rationale can be constructed to explain the foundation of the GOPâs effort to suppress certain citizensâ votes, and Ed does a nice job of it. But really, is it likely that in Karl Roveâs bunker, in ALECâs board room, or at secret meetings convened by the Koch brothers, there are earnest discussions about such deep political groundings and how âCon Consâ need to honor those historic principles? No⌠it is far more plausible that those discussions are entirely pragmatic â how the forces of modern conservatism (more accurately tagged ârunaway radical capitalismâ) can âtrue the voteâ in their favor, no matter what genuinely Constitutional principles must be skewered in the process.
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It may be âprincipledâ but it is based on a fraudulent premise; money equals morality. The nectar that conservatives offer the masses is the idea that conservatism will absolve you of all sins in the effort to be rich. If you inherited your wealth then that is a priori proof that you deserve it and those who work but remain poor must then posess some moral defect. The wealthy deserve the right to vote because of moral superiority, poor people donât.
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Generous, that is the word that comes to mind. I donât believe that anyone, an objective person that is, could have softened the real motives of the neocons, con-cons is also a nice cover name, or tried to be kinder to nasty individuals that donât deserve it in the least.
Why does anyone feel the need to play nice to the Republicans that are clearly out to exclude as many Democratic voters as possible? Call them out and let them cry about being called out, they whine no matter what anyways.
Just look at the end results of all of their supposed policies and ignore their supposed reasoning. They arenât excluding some true freaks that are running for office in the GOP let alone their voters and their little wars are also against anyone that would cut into their Napoleonic dreams.
All of their ideas are terrible but as far as voter suppression goes, itâs as obvious as it appears, there is no principled fallback that isnât also a lie.
Attempting to justify doesnât mean that it automatically becomes justified.
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Why donât you have the prospective voters guess the number of beans in a jar. Itâs how the same people used to do it. Your partyâs voters would always guess correctly and the other partyâs voters would always guess wrong. Then you could take it a step further and âgrandfather inâ all GOP voters under the presumption that their grandfathers would have guessed correctly, therefore any Republican voter would not have to endure the indignity.
Yourt statement about college loans is specious and stupid at best and shows some defective thinking at worst. Since the GHOP constuitutes less than a third of the electorate, my assumption is that you are one of the âdummiesâ of whom you speak.
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âBecause we want to winâ
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Thank you very much for these videos.
Iâd strongly suggest we implement a competency test for running for office. There are so, so many candidates that are so stupid that they would fail to pour piss from a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. The Republican Party would probably be much larger than it is today if they applied such basic logic to the candidates they choose to nominate for office. Rather than restrictions on voting, maybe the better tactic would be to restrict the nominations to demonstrably intelligent people.
But then again, Republicans would have a very hard time fielding any candidate at all if that practice was applied. Stupid is all theyâve got.
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This article seems to be a rather long winded way of saying âConservatives are authoritarians who donât believe in democracy and think they are the only ones who deserve any say in how the country is run.â
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That must be the same 20% that polls show approved of Dick Cheney.
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So, in other words, itâs all about voter suppression? The article seems to posit that thereâs another way of looking at it, via through the eyes of conservatives, but basically boils it down to them not wanting âthose peopleâ voting. Isnât that exactly the thing weâve been saying it is all along? Am I missing something here?
Also, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOT1bRYdK8
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FGS,
Youâve shown yourself part of the non-functioning fifth by failing to show any connection between the Republicansâ intended victims and competence.
-dlj.
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Pot, meet kettle