Your Major Dickweed Of The Week

[filkertom]

Some schmuck named Matthew Vadum writes in the American Thinker that registering poor people to vote is anti-American.

Never mind the 24th Amendment; never mind, as one commenter puts it:

The opening words of the constitution are "We the people," not "We the people who have skin in the game," not "We the people with jobs," not "We the moneyed classes," just "We the people," with no qualifiers. Our government is based on the people, people who have the same rights to vote no matter if they made one dollar or one billion dollars last year.

Usually the right wing isn't so blatant about saying they're better than other people because, essentially, they've collected enough coupons. But there it is. (The comments of GeorgiaBoy61 are particularly telling, and given with no trace of irony or self-awareness.)

One of the really cool things about the American system of government is that, when it works, everybody has the same rights. The most important one is the right to vote. This has not been forgotten by a lot of people, and it is constantly threatened by a lot of people. Those two Venn circles overlap, and those are the ones we need to thwart at every turn. They are the ones who are truly anti-American.

Comments

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

One of them wants literacy tests - and he uses a word "sufferage."

I do support taking the right to vote away from Republican bloggers who can't spell "suffrage."

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hey, perhaps he thinks he's spelled it correctly, based on the concept of making people suffer.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Ignorance is ignorance. Policy is policy. When you mix the two, you get Michele Eichmann.