Why Are Voters Controlled More Than Gun

Nothing clears your head like calling out hypocrisy and
shameful pandering to a powerful interest group. These are the times when you
know who is really running the government and it’s not regular citizens. One
glaring example is the reactions to the real issues of actual gun deaths versus
almost nonexistent real voter fraud.





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Thank you for saying it like it is. I'm so tired of the hypocrisy and the power brokers. The pitiful part is that some of the people are fooled.

Thank you, DT. A very good question.

Recently, an older woman said to me on the phone: I don't understand this issue over voting. Most of my life people have been struggling to get the right to vote. Now they have it and it seems things are going backward. I want everyone to vote. It already doesn't count for much anyway because of the money pouring into the campaigns and making it impossible for people to fully understand the issues beyond out of context sound bites. Daddy didn't drive for the last twenty years of his life and didn't have a driver's license; but he was proud to go cast his ballot because his mind was strong even though his body was not. Today, he would not be able to vote. It's a crime. I don't understand why people across the country are not marching against these laws the same as they marched to get the right to vote. Maybe it's because the ones who can't vote are old like me and don't have the energy to march.

And therein lies the bitter truth. Those least able to fight back will lose their rights - their rights to health care, their rights to vote, their rights for education - all that makes a democracy strong. Instead we have a rising oligarchy of those making sure their "club" remains pure and their rights to the best life has to offer unhampered by consideration for the least of us.

I prefer an imperfect democracy that provides a minimal humane opportunity for all its citizens to seek upward mobility to a perfect oligarchy that divides the country into two classes, the wealthy and the struggling. I believe that we are one humanity with obligations to our fellow travelers, even the different and imperfect ones.