Tomorrow is primary election day in the Hoosier state. I was planning on sitting this one out completely but I will go to vote for Jon Kenworthy to be the Republican nominee in the Indiana 3rd District for the U.S. House of Representatives. Kenworthy won’t win, my neighbors who are mostly great salt-of-the-earth people will reflexively vote for incumbent Marlin Stutzman because they recognize his name. I am voting for Kenworthy anyway because fuck Marlin Stutzman and his Israel first, mass amnesty bullshit.
Anyway, I heard on the radio that the Bureau of Motor Vehicles had extended hours today and tomorrow for people that didn’t already have photo ID so they can vote and sure enough…
Who the hell doesn’t have a photo ID? More to the point….
Do we really want people that are so dumb and/or lazy that they wait until the day before or even the day of the election to get a proper ID to vote?
Hell no.
The older I get and the more experience I have with my fellow Americans, the more apparent it becomes that democracy in the sense of a democratic republic that extends the franchise universally is a terrible system of government.
The sheer volume of really dumb people in this country is bad enough as it is but when you consider that a person with an IQ of 70 who is mentally incapable of understanding the basic concepts and issues in an election not only gets to vote but is encouraged to vote and the state bends over backwards to make it as easy as possible for them to vote, it shows that the system is designed to fail.
Maybe it is just me but I think you should need to exert at least a small amount of effort to vote and if you aren’t willing to do that, you clearly don’t care enough to be voting in the first place.
(Yes, voting is fake and gay. That isn’t the point of the post.)
I quit voting in 2022. That was 50 years to the date after first registering. It’s all bullshit.
They should have to solve a quadratic equation to vote.