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No. This is absolutely wrong. Setting up a law that removes one's right to vote is a way of suppressing the vote. Removing that restriction is not a way of packing the fucking rolls. It is reducing suppression.
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True. But let's be brutally honest about why this is happening. Democrats want more bodies in the booths. Ninety percent of the party apparatus couldn't give a fuck about these peoples' rights. One can't help wonder how many "tough on crime" Ds suddenly supported felons' voting rights when they became a large enough statistical bloc to make a difference.
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Have you heard that? Are "many people saying?" Did you hear it at a cocktail party?
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You think the "welfare mothers" gripe has left GOP circles? It's as strong as ever, morphed into, "My God... We can't give the damn country away to these moochers." I was being incredibly kind to equate the view to de Tocqueville's. When it's said, quite openly, it's usually offered in exactly the coarse fashion you might imagine.
And what kind of parties don't serve drinks? That's rhetorical, of course. If there's an answer somewhere, I'm about as interested in hearing it as I am in the best homeopathic cure for menstrual cramps.
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I'm not sure what you understand, but it seems to me that Republicans love low information voters as long as they vote for them. Low information voters who don't must be purged.
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That's exactly what I was saying.
Except the desire for low information voters applies to both parties. They both want dependable, dependent cogs who'll predictably buy their bullshit and pull the levers for them. Are the Democrats a bit more kind to their low information voters? Yes. They offer them transfers and protections. The GOP just lies to its infantry.
But in the end, neither group offers the lumpen proletariat anything more than a hand job to ease the pain of their utterly fucked futures. And neither tells the poor sons of bitches the ability of govt to protect and provide for them all in the manner to which they've become accustomed is coming to an ugly conclusion sooner than expected.
