So called "moderate" Rethugs are now openly discussing abolishing the vote for the poor.

If you do not own your home or if you are unemployed to the Republicans of today you do not deserve to vote.

How long for this idea to be made into official GOP policy?





http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/registering_the_poor_to_vote_is_un-american.html

To Republicants the very idea of democracy, something just a few years ago they wanted to bomb Nations into supporting is now "Un-American". American Thinker is one of the more "moderate" of GOP blogs online.

(Notice with Republicants all of them have some idiot book that they want to push. They all read the same anyway; tax cuts, tax cuts, government bad, liberals bad so more tax cuts. Add some Reagnite necrophilia and you have any Rethug book out there).

with the SCOTUS we have now, it'll probably pass muster.

Anybody else hear the death knell of (so called) democracy? Disenfranchising poor people simply for being poor. No wonder I'm a commie.

I could make the case. The franchise was NOT expanded to those without property UNTIL Jackson, and Jacksonian democracy. Before that it was property owners... so if I were to make that case, it is not a hard one to make.

Of course, it goes without saying... I don't agree with it... but this is the same group that also wants to take away a woman's right to vote as well

And because of the set up of the amendment process IN THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF, these new amendments overrode the original Constitutional restrictions. Ergo, these types of "throwbacks" to the ORIGINAL documents are themselves unconstitutional.

sitting in his files upholding a property requirement to vote. I wouldn't put it one inch beyond that fascist bastard.

Voter ID cards, attacks on the poor.... hacking---you name it.

Why/ Because they are slowly and surely becoming extinct.

The demographics and their douchebaggery is killing them.

didnt we do this schit before? GOP the bridge to the past.

Despicable, anti-democratic thugs.

"Redistributionist" is the GOP's idea of a big word for someone who dares suggest the rich to pay their fair share of taxes.

What John Kenneth Galbraith said:

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

What Elbert Hubbard said:

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."

so now they've changed it to, "If you don't count, you don't vote!"

So, how to get rid of most voters.

They sure do love infringing Amercians' rights when it suits them...

such s this one:
"Every person's vote is weighted according to how much they paid in taxes. Everyone gets a default value of one. So of that evil CEO paid $750,000 in taxes, his vote would be the equivalent of 750,000 voters who paid nothing. No skin in the game, no say is how the real world works, but we would give them a small say. (Non-shareholders get NO votes in the dealings of a business). This would be "fair" and serve "justice" as those footing the bill would have the biggest say in what is done with THEIR money."

don't get their Senate vote?

any lower....

This is truly mind-numbing. Does this klown go on to muse on the advantages of repealing the 13 and 14th Amendments as well? I know the reichwingers desparately miss the "social customs" of the antebellum South.

What's with calling them moderate anything?

on the "moderate" side now.

compared to other rethug blogs. Hell, it's far to the right of redstate.

Shit, every time I think these assholes have gotten on my last nerve they find a new one to get on. In a country where the bottom 80% hold approx 7% of the wealth, just how many people do they intend to disenfranchise? :banghead:

Each and every one of us who is not in the top 2-3%.

And while this may be in some little "fringe" magazine or website, every other crackpot fascist idea that is now part and parcel of the Repiglican mainstream has come from exactly the same sort of source. This will hit "mainstream" Repig "thought" within a year or two. Take that to the bank.

Sure enough. I've already heard plenty of their minions spouting this crap for a few years now. What's even more jaw dropping is some of the people I've heard spouting it....people that don't have a pot to piss in themselves. It's just too surreal sometimes...

The pile is getting deep. Yet you won't see ANY of this on news shows tonight....

What about the disappearing middle class?

Eventually anyway. Euthanasia for those who can't work is the obvious next step.

They need to prove "the poor" are a majority of voters. It is the middle class and some of the rich that voted for politicians that passed liberal programs.

taking this into context

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x760565

And he's hardly a moderate Republican. He's about as way out there as it gets.

I've been trying to draw attention to Vadum and the Capital Research Center for a while -- but they're still pretty under-the-radar.

The CRC was founded in the 1980's by a bunch of Reaganites with the goal of "defunding the left." It's always been very close to the Heritage Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (whose Collegiate Network funded the right-wing college papers that gave James O'Keefe and his pals their start.)

Vadum has been involved for many years in attacking ACORN and in concocting the kind of unlikely conspiracy theories about the left that Glenn Beck has adopted wholesale. In fact, both men agree that Beck got them originally from Vadum -- as a quick google on their names will demonstrate.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is one part of the Heritage network that's getting increased attention now -- but there are others, such as the State Policy Network and the Capital Research Center and the Collegiate Network that could use to be brought under the spotlight.

thanks for the additional information.

And that the "economic conservatives" (read: corporatist) are somehow more palatable or reasonable.

Far from it. Some of these "economic conservatives" are just about as extreme and outlandish as you can get. This just underscores that fact.

I've been hearing this line for years. It does continue stun that knuckledraggers want to disenfranchise themselves in an effort to lick the taints of the wealthy.

We cannot allow this party to be perceived as being "soft" on the poor! Nobody wants their children to be poor. We cannot allow poverty to escape penalty. We cannot omit to show social disapproval for the existence of poverty. So, if the Republicans are for stern measures against the poor, we are for them too. It's just that we prefer somewhat more measured stern measures, to show how reasonable we are. Splitting the difference then, between the Republican position of disenfranchising all those without property or jobs, and our previously tie-dyed hippie liberal position of supporting voting rights for all citizens of legal majority, we can support disenfranchising all of the unemployed. And a happy medium has been found.

Yet they accuse liberals of class warfare all in the same breath.

"Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor. It's about helping the poor to help themselves to others' money."

I fixed that statement!

Encouraging those who are wealthy to donate in elections isn't about helping the country or the candidate. It is about helping the wealthy to help themselves to others' money.

The Best congress money can buy!

I guess the paradigm has so shifted that they don't feel they need to pretend anymore.