Voting rights for me but not for thee?
So glad we have a well-established acronym for this shitâŚ
IOKIYAR
Again, we see the age-old pattern. Naked self-interest is the GOPâs only guiding principle.
She is Miltonâs Satan, only without the grandeur. Every step she takes is within a hell of her own making. Which is why sheâs so hateful to everyone who might still have a soul to call their own.
The story goes to show the character difference between people on the left and right: [quote]Sixteen years later, Floyd Thomas Curry now regrets seeking to suppress student votes. âWhen I realized I was opposed by the ACLU, I thought, âGee, maybe Iâm not right,ââ Curry said in a recent interview. âIn retrospect, I was dead wrong. It was not my proudest moment.â[/quote]
Curry is chastened by his prior voter suppression tactics opposed by the ACLU, while those on the right revel in every confrontation with the ACLU and push every legal (and illegal) gimmick they can get away with to tip the scale in their favor.
The New Hampshire development is interesting and disappointing to me, but not surprising. I was a conservative college student in New Hampshire over fifteen years ago and Republicans were trying to spook and prevent us from voting even then. Of course, most of my classmates were liberal (as I am now), so they were the intended targets of the voter dissuasion tactics. Some people were telling us that we had to get NH state IDs, register our cars, etc. if we voted in NH while other people told us this wasnât true. I didnât know which narrative to believe. As it turned out, I ended up living in NH for nearly a decade but I couldnât have predicted it then. Itâs a shame there wasnât better guidance coming from the college explaining the lay of the land. I suppose there could have been and I just didnât know about it, though it wasnât for a lack of asking around.