Obama: Hey, let's make voting mandatory
Let's not.
They're forcing you to buy health insurance whether you want it or not, because they think they know what's good for you. (Actually it's more about what's good for the health insurance companies who got in bed with politicians and bureaucrats to support the mandate, but never mind such details.) So if they can force you to buy a product in the private marketplace, why can't they force you to exercise one of your constitutional rights?
Barack Obama can't think of a reason why not, so hey. It's time for mandatory voting, people! Your prince has decreed it:
Over the years, a variety of political scientists have mused on the idea of requiring people to vote, citing the consistently poor turnout in U.S. elections. Critics have questioned the practicality of passing and enforcing such a requirement; others say that freedom also means the freedom not to do something.
As Obama noted, however, other countries to do have mandatory voting laws.
In addition to Australia, the Associated Press reported that "at least two dozen countries have some form of compulsory voting, including Belgium, Brazil and Argentina. In many systems, absconders must provide a valid excuse or face a fine, although a few countries have laws on the books that allow for potential imprisonment."
During his Cleveland remarks, Obama noted that many young people, minorities, and low income workers tend not to vote, and that some lawmakers want to discourage them from doing so.
Getting more people to vote would "completely change the political map in this country," Obama said.
And there's the key. There's one reason and one reason only Democrats like this idea. It's the same reason Oregon's new Democrat governor wants the state to automatically register everyone to vote. Forcing everyone to vote means uninformed morons who don't pay much attention to what's happening in government, and don't really care, would suddenly become a massive voting bloc that was never in play before.
How do uninformed morons vote? Why, they vote overwhelmingly Democratic, of course, because they're the easiest people to persuade with disingenuous rhetoric based on envy, race-resentment, promises of taxpayer-funded goodies or whatever else might work. Mandatory voting is about getting more of the dependent class to the polls to keep their benefactors in power. That's all any Democrat effort to increase voter turnout ever is.
I've long believed that those who don't pay attention shouldn't vote. In fact, I follow that practice myself when it comes to judge elections. Every election year the ballot contains a long list of judiciary candidates here in Michigan, and every year I ignore that part of the ballot. Why? Because I am not qualified to decide who would be a good judge. I don't know anything about it. The idea of electing judges is idiotic. That's how you end up with mediocre legal talent who happen to have recognizable or "judge-sounding" names on the bench.
In the Detroit area, if your last name is Hathaway, O'Brien or Calahan (or something similar, like Cahalan), you can pretty much become a judge just by getting your name on the ballot. People think you sound like a judge. This is insane and I refuse to participate in it.
And by the same token, people who don't understand public policy and haven't really researched the substance and qualifications of the candidates shouldn't vote. They owe it to the nation not to, and to let people who actually know what's going on choose our leaders. We make our nation stronger by keeping voting voluntary, because ignorant morons self-select themselves to be non-voters. If you don't care enough to pay attention, you don't care enough to vote.
It works great. But Obama wants to force these people to vote because he knows Democrats can more easily manipulate them than more informed voters. So yeah, it would change the map all right. It would turn the whole damn thing blue, which is exactly the idea.
By the way, here's a question: If you think voting should be mandatory because it's a really important constitutional right, how about gun ownership and the practice of religion? What say we make those mandatory too?
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