From Weekend Pundit:
Quote: “When I saw this my first thought was “Why?” However, my second thought was “Why not?”
I saw another related suggestion made in Disqus comments about only those citizens with a Concealed Carry Permit should be allowed to vote. There is some logic to it: American citizens need to have background checks in order to exercise their Second Amendment Rights, so why not do likewise for American citizens exercising their Right to Vote? Both are equally important.
There is a sane argument there. ALL Rights are equal in our Bill of Rights. If the Ruling Class has deigned that Government must “approve” us in exercising a Right (that we aren’t criminals or otherwise prohibited to keep and bear arms), then why not prove that you know our actual history (and not the faux Zinnification or the racist 1619 ones) and our political philosophy as created by our Founders (and not the foreign one, Socialism or Communism, brought back by “academicians” in the 1880s). And while we’re at it, let’s raise the voting age to 27.
After all, Obamacare proved that our Ruling Class thinks that we’re all children (e.g., on your parents’ health insurance until 26), so let’s make it REAL official.
Given that part of our name stems from Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land“, I sometimes think that his premise in “Star Troopers” still has a lot going forward – if you are willing to put your life on the line, you earn the right to vote. You’ve proven that you have skin in the game.
Nowadays, it seems that if you are younger than 60, you don’t even know your own country’s history, so why let you vote for the rest of us. Oh, I could think of a bunch of things (you have to pay taxes and have no skin in the game, that you have to have signed both the front as well as the back of a paycheck, that you served in the military) that you’d have to “pass” in order to vote.
Even going back to owing land. But Government being Government, those “writing the standards” would figure out how to write it so that they can game their new rules. So while I might give it more thought, I’m afraid for outcome.
But it is important that when you’ve got skin in the game, you care. When you don’t have skin in the game, you don’t care what happens to other peoples’ “skin”. Especially when it is their skin you want. Or take from your hated Identity Group to give to your favored one.
Oh, I’m quite sure that the NH Democrats are going to get riled over this – but they can scream all they want as I don’t care any more. But all they can scream about is the surface level – they can’t argue that having skin in the game, of one type or another, is important. And those that don’t, in general, care less as to the actual outcomes.
