pErvin wrote:
But everyone's individual life is at stake. No life is more important than any other. Disenfranchisement is pretty anti-liberal, even for a conservative such as you..
Therefore, taking this exchange back to the top, the old fogeys you wanted to disenfranchise are just as important as the young folks you wanted to privilege, and therefore the old fogeys should be allowed to vote, because "disenfranchisement is pretty anti-liberal" even for a progressive such as you...
Now, back, to my argument about having a skin in the game. Recall that when I first mentioned the issue of taxes in voting, in response to your old-fogeys-shouldn't vote post, I referred to people "thinking differently" when they are financially invested in something. Do you, at least, acknowledge that when someone has their own money involved, they think differently about something, as compared to the issues that don't financially impact them?
And, do you also agree that where someone is voting, there is a different incentive to voting for getting money than for paying money? Isn't that why people who pay taxes have an incentive to vote for lower taxes, and people who don't pay taxes don't care as much if the taxes are raised on other people?
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
And they still call him Black Tony.
