The Yummy Food Dining Club

If you joined an organization, and in order to recieve your "goodies" you had to show your membership card, what would you do if they never sent you the card?..

What if you were a member of the ...let's say.. "Yummy Food Dining Club".. It doesn't cost anything to join, but when you have the card, you get a free meal every week, just by having the waitress swipe your card..

All you have to do to get the card is to be 18 years old.. and as a marketing tool, the "Yummy Food Dining Club" offers to send you your card, free of charge..

The food is quite good, and no matter where you live you can always use it at any restaurant..

If you knew that at age 18 you were supposed to get the card, and it never came, would you complain and say ...."hey send me my card"?

One free meal a week?? or maybe the Yummy Food Dining Club is a Voter Registration "club"..

and the "goodies" are not plates of food that stay in our bodies a day or so, but a plate of rights and laws that remain with us our whole lives..

What I am getting at is THIS...

Our government KNOWS very well who of us are citizens, who is 18, and when they turn 18.

The whole buggy system of registration we have now is a shredded patchwork quilt of unraveling threads..

LOCAL elections are just that..L O C A L...but we have such a large population now, and national office-holders have polarized our society so damned much, we NEED a new syatem..

ALL NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT OFFICES MUST BE PUT UNDER A NATIONALLY STANDARDIZED ELECTION SYSTEM.

The states and communities can do whatever they want, but we have all come to realize how much things have changed.. When else in history has the selection of a senators from a state-not-your-own have even mattered?

The internet(s) have turned EVERY election into a national election because we have come to see how important the "majority" really can be.

It's evident by now, that MOST congresspeople/senators are not really working "for" us, so I'm wondering if states can., by referendum, FORCE a change in how we elect the nationally-significant offices..

I don;t hold out much hope that this could occur in DC, since they love the way it works now.

The "real ID" is a done deal anyway, so why not make it be a national voter ID that removes the need for registration (when voting for senate/congress/president)?

If a person wants to vote for local issues, that card along with proof of physical address, should suffice.

If people WANT to identify themselves as democart/republican/Independent/whatever, they could do that on their own..

I do not like the fcat that in a very RED community, I am "tagged" as a democrat...the "gremlins" who run the registrar's office could always just "lose" my registration, and unless I check from time to time, I would never know it..

We have got to start thinking outside the box.. It's not 1936 anymore, folks,.

Like it or not, that is what it would take.

Most of the driver's licenses in the states have the databases to accomodate this sort of thing. And most states can instantaneously access the databases of other states already.

It's just that the IDEA of a national identity card is repugnant to many.

"Papers, let me see your PAPERS!!!"

If everyone gets one, we're one step away from everyone being REQUIRED to carry the thing.

It's already in the pipeline.. like it or not, we are getting them..

I am just suggesting, that since it;'s a done deal anyway, why not turn it into a PLUS, by linking it to voting..and do away with the presumption that "local" is better..

Local is only "better" if there are standards followed by ALL

otherwise we all get stuck with the misdeeds of the creeps that other states foist on us ( I'm talking about when they get in through cheating, and by voter disenfranchisement))

And, is it also good for yummy cocktails?

Thanks for the good post.

:)

(Also from SoCal -- Ontario)

and check your mailbox for your "real ID card" :)