Should you even have the right to vote?

[ThoughtCrimes]

It's odd that Conservatives happily agree that voter's rights should be curtailed by imposing tests and quizzes while the seem to agree to a man that there should be no restrictions on who can own a deadly weapon.

Priorities?

Back when Conservatives held sway in the Deep South, they used tests and quizzes to maintain their grip on power. Blacks were asked to read Chinese menus, answer questions like 'how many bubbles are in a bar of soap' and other humiliating ways to repress their vote.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Link?

Here's a link regarding the Jim Crow literacy tests of the Southern States ...like those given in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama:
Think You Can Pass The Impossible Literacy Test African Americans Once Had To Take Before They Could Vote? Try Now

A movie and a lying congressman's 50 year old memories?

You can deny those types of literacy tests were used, but you can't change the truth and the fact of them. Only an idiot and a fool would attempt to hold back the tide of TRUTH!

 

[Nosmo King]

It's odd that Conservatives happily agree that voter's rights should be curtailed by imposing tests and quizzes while the seem to agree to a man that there should be no restrictions on who can own a deadly weapon.

Priorities?

Back when Conservatives held sway in the Deep South, they used tests and quizzes to maintain their grip on power. Blacks were asked to read Chinese menus, answer questions like 'how many bubbles are in a bar of soap' and other humiliating ways to repress their vote.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Link?

Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s

 

[CremeBrulee]

That was incredibly easy.

 

[Wry Catcher]

I think we should go by the golden rule. If you are contributing the gold, you make the rules.

That's why the special interests rule. So don't complain when the same people keep getting elected and nothing changes. The special interests care about power, not party or ideology.

I agree...

So how about giving up the freebies, and actually think about what's best for the country???




















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Best for the country? Good Idea, surrender your citizenship and go somewhere where you'll fit in. Too bad there's no time-machine, Nazi Germany would seem to be the best fit for you.

It's odd that Conservatives happily agree that voter's rights should be curtailed by imposing tests and quizzes while the seem to agree to a man that there should be no restrictions on who can own a deadly weapon.

Priorities?

Back when Conservatives held sway in the Deep South, they used tests and quizzes to maintain their grip on power. Blacks were asked to read Chinese menus, answer questions like 'how many bubbles are in a bar of soap' and other humiliating ways to repress their vote.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Back when Conservatives held sway in the Deep South, they used tests and quizzes to maintain their grip on power. Blacks were asked to read Chinese menus, answer questions like 'how many bubbles are in a bar of soap' and other humiliating ways to repress their vote.

And now NK, the Dems have bought the black vote through entitlements, to reverse that situation.

The more things change the more they stay the same? lol

A rather cynical way to look at it, don't you think? If the motivation was to secure the Black vote, why do we see a voter turnout of less than 40%? Perhaps the actual motivation is to help provide a means of socio-economic advancement in the face of Conservative repression and preference for the wealthy.

What Liberals can't seem to wrap their heads around is the fact that wealthy Conservatives want everyone to be wealthy. We make our wealth by selling goods and services to consumers. Poor people make shitty customers.
The difference of opinion here is how to make people good customers.
For the last 50 years, Liberals have been fighting their "war on poverty" to what end?
There are more people living at an ever widening level of poverty than ever before.
Throwing the money of the producers at the poor and uneducated/motivated has not and will not work.
What will, is finding a way to make the poor WANT to be rich enough to get them to get a good education, a strong work ethic and the desire to stop bearing children they can't afford to support.

Government can't motivate. They can provide education, training and structure, but they can't make anyone take advantage.

I suppose it's all in the way one regards people. Some see people through a political prism, as chattel to turn out at the polls. Others see people as people who deserve a means out of the poverty and repression others have imposed on them.

But if people are only chattel for the polling place, what could motivate them to vote? The promise of a party giving advantages to the wealthy and corporate special interests, or the promise of a party to help erase repressive policies?

It really just depends on HOW one defines that word, helping. I believe in teaching a person to fish, not providing their sustenance. Nature makes no mistakes and the strong will survive, as nature intended.

So an aged or infirm person not strong enough to fish ought to starve? That fits nicely in the platform of Callous Conservatives.

They ought not to be a burden upon those who are barely making a living or those who are making a lucrative one.

A burden? What do you suggest, Solyent Green?

I would suggest that families take care of their aged and infirm.

Some outlive their families. Some never marry, never have children or siblings. Panoptic thinking is a process where all parts and elements of an issue are considered.

I remember when children whose parents lost their parental rights, usually do to abuse, extreme criminality and or Drug and alcohol addictions, were placed by the court in foster homes.

One effort to save money and supported by the liberal community was put forth to require the court to post the children in a relatives home, usually a grandparent who raised the parents of the child.

An example of myoptic thinking at its worst.

 

[ThoughtCrimes]

It's odd that Conservatives happily agree that voter's rights should be curtailed by imposing tests and quizzes while the seem to agree to a man that there should be no restrictions on who can own a deadly weapon.

Priorities?

Back when Conservatives held sway in the Deep South, they used tests and quizzes to maintain their grip on power. Blacks were asked to read Chinese menus, answer questions like 'how many bubbles are in a bar of soap' and other humiliating ways to repress their vote.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Link?

Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s

That was the one he avoided going to the link. My mistake for not doing due diligence and posting that for his reeducation, also! Thanks.

I tried that test 3-4 times and never got the 6 questions done in the 2 minute limit.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

It's odd that Conservatives happily agree that voter's rights should be curtailed by imposing tests and quizzes while the seem to agree to a man that there should be no restrictions on who can own a deadly weapon.

Priorities?

Back when Conservatives held sway in the Deep South, they used tests and quizzes to maintain their grip on power. Blacks were asked to read Chinese menus, answer questions like 'how many bubbles are in a bar of soap' and other humiliating ways to repress their vote.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Back when Conservatives held sway in the Deep South, they used tests and quizzes to maintain their grip on power. Blacks were asked to read Chinese menus, answer questions like 'how many bubbles are in a bar of soap' and other humiliating ways to repress their vote.

And now NK, the Dems have bought the black vote through entitlements, to reverse that situation.

The more things change the more they stay the same? lol

A rather cynical way to look at it, don't you think? If the motivation was to secure the Black vote, why do we see a voter turnout of less than 40%? Perhaps the actual motivation is to help provide a means of socio-economic advancement in the face of Conservative repression and preference for the wealthy.

What Liberals can't seem to wrap their heads around is the fact that wealthy Conservatives want everyone to be wealthy. We make our wealth by selling goods and services to consumers. Poor people make shitty customers.
The difference of opinion here is how to make people good customers.
For the last 50 years, Liberals have been fighting their "war on poverty" to what end?
There are more people living at an ever widening level of poverty than ever before.
Throwing the money of the producers at the poor and uneducated/motivated has not and will not work.
What will, is finding a way to make the poor WANT to be rich enough to get them to get a good education, a strong work ethic and the desire to stop bearing children they can't afford to support.

Government can't motivate. They can provide education, training and structure, but they can't make anyone take advantage.

I think one way to help kids is to actually teach them about money which is something our public schools don't do. Ask any high school kid today what they know about the stock market, the commodities market, the real estate market, opening up a small business, and you'll be met with a blank look on their faces.

Sure, maybe you can learn these things once you get into college......if you get to college. But what if you don't?

Well on one side, you have your friends telling you that you have to be born a certain color to be successful, from certain families, have certain luck on your side. Either that, or be able to write a hot selling rap song or be good at sports.

On the other side you have your liberal politicians who's message bleeds into our school system that the rich people have all the money and you can't get your hands on any of it.

So what we need to change is the education system. We need to teach all children that financial success is available to anybody that really wants it, but it takes some work and sacrifice.