No, it isn’t. You dearly wish it were, and bend every effort to pretend that it is. Every time it is pointed out to you, you blink, wait a moment, and start right in with how popular voter id is, how it was legitimately and legally enacted.
But it isn’t. If it were, there would be no argument at all. The problem is not voter id, the problem is using the legitimacy of voter id as a lever to twist the electoral system to the advantage of a particular political party.
This is something like the one hundred and fifty third time you’ve been told this, and it bounces off you like a Nerf ball off a rhinoceros.
For what it’s worth, I’m not inclined to call Clothahump horrible, etc. but certainly foolish and short-sighted for assuming that since it was easy for him, it must be easy for everybody. It’s a child’s view of the world.
“Every time I vote I just pay the poll tax…”
“Every time I vote the nice old white man gives me the literacy test and I do my best and he always says I pass…”
That’s not the issue. I know, because Democrats would NEVER twist the electoral system to their advantage. So it can’t possibly be about that complaint. That would be ludicrous.
Are you seriously offering the “they did it so we can do it” argument? Or is this more whining about how liberals criticize conservatives but not liberals, as if this somehow deligitimizes any criticism of conservatives?
Let me guess: Mother Jones and the New York Times.
The discussion starts at the passage of the laws, continues merrily through the fact that the laws are objectively reasonable, pauses briefly to admire the roses planted at the perimeter of the Definitions of Democracy Monument, and then kicks over the sand castles built on Silly Liberal Definitions beachfront.
Nor is it about liberal hypocrisy. Now, if this were the Bricker Board, it could be! Any time you don’t like the way the argument is going, you could just say “liberal hypocrisy” and you would win!
Maybe it hasn’t caused you any difficulty because you never had to decide which bill you’re not going to pay in order to take a day off to wrestle with the bureaucracy to get the ID in the first place. How fucking stupid do you have to be to realize that the mere act of getting an ID is a hardship for some people?
If the Redskins play the Cowboys, and the refs vigorously call infractions against Washington, and fail to call infractions against Dallas, then what would be the reaction to that response?
JAY GRUDEN: What the hell, ref?
REFEREE BRYAN EKERS: Your guy was holding.
GRUDEN: But so has Dallas all afternoon, and you don’t throw the flag for theirs.
REF EKERS: Does that make your holding OK? No, it doesn’t.
Got any examples of “holding violations” known to have been ignored? Feel free to present some if you think you can tolerate the judgements of the “referee”.
I’m on record suggesting the Americans create a nonpartisan government agency to draw election boundaries (as well as maintain voter rolls and set ID standards), as is done in Canada.
I’m on record as saying they shouldn’t have done that, simultaneous with expressing my mild surprise that a state legislature COULD do that, since I’d assumed Senate vacancy appointments were routinely in the purview of the various governors.
You’re 0 for 2. I won’t think less of you for giving up.
The reason people mock you is that you have a delusional world view that has driven you into an inchoate rage over the imagined wrongs you hear about on the Tee Vee.
You’re a dupe. Probably not a bad person, but a shitty fucking American because you provide misinformed votes that drive policy that hurts real human beings.
Bricker, now he’s actually a bad person. He knows better. You, you’re just a nice guy with a social disease.
Also, the problem isn’t taking the ID out of your wallet, you vapid twat, it’s getting an ID when you have lived perfectly fine without one.
No, I’m trying to advocate that bad policy not be enacted. Since it does more harm than it cures.
I get that you have no ability to advocate your position based on intelligence and reason. But I don’t think humor is your strong suit. Mr. Thesaurus club, herp derp!