[Ret10Echo]

I want to preface this by stating that I realize that location in which I live has come to pass due to work availability and life circumstances. Fortunately I live in a country that (for now) allows me to relocate to a place that has a belief system in place more aligned with my own.

So, picture this scenario.

Young student gleefully turns 18 and decides it is time to register to vote. Only challenge is that in order to do so, they must take a 4 hour civics class at a cost of between $65 and $125 and certify that they are able to properly operate an electronic voting machine.

Once successfully completing the civics class, our intrepid student must submit to electronic fingerprints at a cost of $67

Having completed these two essential steps, now the student is able to go online to a state operated website and enter in the verification codes for the class and the fingerprints, complete a series of questions attesting to their past actions and demographics and submit those to the benevolent state....including a $50 "fee" for the privilege.

Now, with somewhere between $182 and $242 spent, our student awaits electronic notification of the successful processing...or perhaps the complete forfeiture of fees and rejection before receiving their voter card in the mail from the state.
As each polling period comes around, our student must present their voter card along with photo identification in order to exercise their Constitutional RIGHT to vote.

What would liberal democrats think of such a process?

The screeching of "Jim Crow laws" impeding the rights of the poor, young, and elderly to exercise their Constitutional right to participate in our system of government.

Yet when this exact process exists to deny and discourage legal gun ownership within a state, those same liberal democrats remain silent. In fact those who represent the poor and underprivileged within the state would be shrilling from the highest tower, decrying this abomination if it were placed upon any OTHER right granted in the U.S. Constitution BUT the Second Amendment.

But it wouldn't fit their agenda.

It's not about rights. It's about removing the threat of resistance to a system of government that has forgotten where it came from and whom it serves.

It's about a voter base that has become nothing more than an echo chamber to party apparatchik as they build their own cages like the ignorant drones that they are.


“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

James Madison