Remind me why they are required to attend?
They aren't but the numbers aren't in Republicans' favor.
There are more non-white babies born in the US than whites. Guess what is going to happen with that result? Whites will not be the majority. Even if the Republican party were to get 90% white vote, they can't win blacks, Hispanics, and women without changing their approach towards those minorities.
One way to do that is to recognize the struggle it took for black people to get the right to participate in our society and some of the mentality that drove Jim Crow laws is still present today. If Republicans would actually acknowledge that, they would get the black vote. But they have decided that "White is right" and they don't care.
They won't be a national party within 20 years on that path.
I don't particularly care if whites are the majority. I would prefer every one of us identify as Americans and vote for what's best for the country. Give aways and special programs for certain segments are NOT good for the country. They are not even good for the segments the purportedly benefit.
Giving free food and housing and health care and cell phones and high speed internet, legal services, college tuition bunion pads and birth control don't help one bit. They only make the poor dependent on the government for more free food and housing and health care and cell phones and high speed internet, legal services, college tuition, bunion pads and birth control. This makes sitting on one's ass collecting checks more comfortable then leaving the bar early, getting a good night's sleep and punching a clock at 7 AM.
Something must be done to limit the size of single parent families and to limit the time a family can collect public assistance. Now there is incentive to keep turning out kids so the EBT card recharge is bigger and bigger.
Harsh, perhaps, but no single parent family should receive one penny more for additional children. ALL welfare recipients over 18 or no longer enrolled in public education should attend appropriate vocational training as a condition of entitlement for any and all public assistance and upon completion have benefits reduced over a year to zero. Kids who can function in a tertiary education system should be encouraged to go to college with some partial financial incentive, but no free ride for college.
All birth records should include the name of a father and mother and a non custodial parent must pay child support greater than any moneys from public assistance. Non payment should be a felony with violators placed in prisons where they would learn a trade they are intellectually and physically capable of performing.
Being poor is uncomfortable. I'm sorry, but it should be. It should be so uncomfortable that people will do what ever it takes to better themselves.