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mk  ·  4826 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Registering the poor to vote is un-american
Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery. Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.

Duhumanize and criminalize those that have accepted welfare. It's sad to see this kind of vitriol get traction.

These apostles of depravity...

And that's when I stopped reading. This kind of writing is usually pink on a green background with blinking headlines.

If you want respect, you need to show it. If you want to be taken seriously, you need to act like a serious person. Maybe we have had a bit too much of 'everyone's opinion counts'. If you can't deliver your opinion in a constructive manner, why should I bother with it?

BTW, I shared it so people can see it.





dbingham  ·  4826 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I'm caught between wanting to share my horror at this essay and not wanting to send them any traffic.
mk  ·  4826 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah, I had that internal debate too. But knowing cgod, my guess is he share is sharing the horror, so that helped.

I posted a no-traffic version in another comment. ;)