Last time I checked, Senators and Representatives were selected by We the People to represent US in the Senate and the House. Nowhere do I see anything about a Party. Nowhere do I see anything about a handful of people holding those titles telling the rest how and when to vote for something. (I won’t get into term limits right now, but…)
How is it that We the People are letting this handful of ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES tell us “we know what’s best for you. Just sit down, shut up and accept us” while they dictate to OUR elected officials HOW to vote on matters that affect US? When are We the People going to stand up and remind these people, as I’ve said time and again, ‘You work for US, not a faceless Party or that handful of wannabe oligarchs’?
Of course that would mean turning off Dancing With the Stars, getting off their phone, getting up off their duffs and going out to actually VOTE for the one that has shown they truly have THEIR best interest in their heart (not, for example, something like a golf tournament in their name).
I would like to remind people that this ‘off season election’ nonsense is just that…nonsense. There is no such thing. EVERY election, regardless of the calendar, is important. Not treating it as such is an invitation to the three ring circus we find ourselves in now.
Finally, when are we going to face the fact that this “early voting” nonsense is eroding our system along with the “mail in ballot” scam. Make Election Day a national holiday and have non-vital businesses closed. We can dedicate a whole month to LGBTQRSTUV but not one day to selecting people who make life affecting decisions. Add to this a requirement to produce a legal photo ID (not a utility bill or other such nonsense) but a REAL ID. And don’t throw up this ‘what about the poor’ nonsense. A picture ID is FREE.
For the record, this rant is aimed at ALL sides. I don’t care what you registered as. All are guilty to some extent.
Term Limits at all levels
Carpe Diem
Alan Marshall
Out of one side of his face Alan tells you to vote. Out of the other side of his face, he tells you he doesn’t want voting to be easily accessible for everyone. Typical conservative contradiction. Early voting and mail-in voting are critical to allowing working class people to vote and reduce long lines at polls during national elections. There is no basis of mass fraud as elections have been proven to be secure, fair and efficient.
Make voting even easier with a National mandatory holiday.
Best wishes
He’s soooooo close, it’s amazing he hasn’t gotten it yet.
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“Mandatory holiday”…?
Sometimes Leftists let their mask slip, and we see their real authoritarian nature.
“You vill NOT vork today – and you VILL go to vote! Ja!”
All Leftists are closet totalitarians.
” Out of the other side of his face, he tells you he doesn’t want voting to be easily accessible for everyone.”
Going to call you out again Chris…show me where I said that. You can’t because you make it up, like 90% of what you post.
“There is no basis of mass fraud as elections have been proven to be secure, fair and efficient.”
Please tell me what drugs you apparently use and where get them because I sure would like some.
Wooosh. Alan cant even understand the context of his own words. Not shocked.
Hint: eliminating early voting and mail in voting makes voting more difficult for hard working Americans. How daft to not understand thst basic idea.
But you be you.
Where is the proof that making Vote Day a national holiday would increase voter turnout, Chris?
That would just give federal employees another paid holiday. Businesses don’t have to follow suit.
A few states already have Vote Day as a holiday. However, according to Princeton University’s Department of Economics, there is no concrete evidence that providing an election holiday has increased voter turnout. This lack of evidence should make us question the effectiveness of this approach.
We currently have eleven or twelve national holidays. Which one do you want to drop, Chris, Juneteenth?
salt life,
I agree with Alan we should do away with mail-in balloting and early voting. I would support a variation in the early voting concept in that I would restrict it to the weekend before Election Day.
Note I say mail-in and early voting, not absentee voting. I say this because there are some (*cough* Chris *cough*) would try to argue they are the same thus showing (once again) their ignorance and wanting to argue just for the sake of arguing.
I.m on the fence about declaring a National holiday but do think there should be encouragement towards employers to allow time (w/o negative consequences) for employees to go vote.
I 100% agree with requiring voter ID. The argument of being poor is straw dog excuse at best, again a ‘Chris’ attempt at deflection, albeit a very, very weak one.
My point of view is simple. Prove mass abuse of mail in voting before you take away an easy means for people to vote. Prove early voting does anything but increase access to voting before to cancel it out.
There is no fraud. Illegals are not voting in mass to have any impact on vote outcomes. Early voting, mail in voting and absentee voting makes voting more accessible and easy for many hard working and or disabled America’s to vote.
Not complicated.
I had not heard of that study. Thanks for sharing.
The challenge is to question if it is legal to have a true mandated federal holiday were all businesses are closed for election. Not really practical so makes sense that the holiday things might not work.
FYI, Juneteenth is one to consider dropping but Presidents day is top of my list to replace. President deserve less and less respect these days. Especially our current President. And most businesses don’t recognize it anyway. Just considered a ‘banking holiday’.
Thanks again for the insight.