Topic: Liberal Genius Proposes Taking Away Senior Voting Rights

[Pandora]

Because we all know the those hopey-changey youth voters are soooo well informed after their years of anti-American socialist propaganda.

Boy wonder Ezra Klein proposes taking away senior voting rights.
The Washington Post reported:

    ?Here’s your out-of-the-box policy idea for the day:

        America should implement weighted voting to make voting more objective and fair, and give the young more power, because the consequences of political decisions will affect them the longest. Weighted voting would restore power to twenty and thirty year olds, where it resided before the advent of medical science. With the aid of computers, it would be easy to give everyone a Voting Score, just like we all have a credit score.

    If your response to this is that it’s crazy and offensive, that all American adults are equal and so is their vote, you might want to familiarize yourself with the U.S. Senate, where a Wyoming resident’s vote is worth almost 70 times as much as a Californian’s, or the electoral college, where the presidency could be won by a candidate who loses the popular vote 4:1.

    All of which is to say, we already reweight voting in this country. But we do it to give residents from small states more power. Does that really make more sense than reweighting by age, education, race, income or some other demographic characteristic?

And this comes from the supposed “smart” one of the bunch.

Hoo boy; I'm just in the right mood for this snot-nose and his most excellent adventure of an idea.

Tell you what, Genius, how about we limit voting to property-owning, Federal tax-paying citizens -- and no, your fcking Prius doesn't count as property.  I'd even go as far as to suggest "males only"; I'd gladly give up my vote if it kept the liberal harridans from voting on their "women's issues" and their feeeeeeelings.

[RickZ]

I have no problem with weighting voting for the young. . . . Just as long as they weight gun ownership for the elderly.

/Checks and balances.

[radioman]

You mean all those kids that are still living with mommy, and are on their health insurance?
Them? They get a full vote? While we are still supporting 'em?

[Pandora]

You mean all those kids that are still living with mommy, and are on their health insurance?
Them? They get a full vote? While we are still supporting 'em?

Galling, I know.

I wonder if the Boy Genius ran his bright idea past his parents.  Here's hoping he did and his Mother had the maid ruin his friggin laundry.

This really got me revved today; these little snot-trees think they're so smart.

[warpmine]

I don't mind this forward thinking at all provided that those thirty year olds are required to own private property in the form of LAND so that they have their skin to lose when they vote for those bright ideas.

[OLJingoist]

I'll give up my voting rights just as soon as they buy a good belt to hold up their pants, and gain meaningful employment.

[Sectionhand]

Ezra Klein and his right hand are a match made in Heaven !

[IronDioPriest]

Citizens against citizens. It's because the government has strayed from the constitution. Imagine a nation that adhered to the constitution - where no one survived on the redistributed largesse of confiscated productivity, and the rule of law stood as a bulwark against tyranny. What would divide the citizens of such a nation to the point of impossible impasse we now face?

[Glock32]

I'm also offended by such a flip ignorance of the debate, and subsequent compromise, over the nature of statehood and how it would be represented in the Federal Congress. I'm offended that this ignorance masquerades as reasoned and sensible insight into modern questions of representation.

This Wunderkind failed to note that we have a Congress composed of two chambers. One reflects the population of a state, the other reflects that state's very existence as an independent state. I'm sure as an enlightened liberal, he believes representation should indeed be weighted in favor of population density, so that NY, CA, and IL could dictate national policy to the other 54 states (/sarc). But what about the debate over representation back when the Constitution was being crafted? Would our Wunderkind still be enamored of his populist prescription when the chief beneficiary was going to be the slave holding state of Virginia? Because that fact was one of the main points of contention with the small states who weren't about to ratify a Constitution that permanently subordinated their interests to the Virginias and New Yorks of the new nation.

[Libertas]

And I assume this goes hand in hand with abolishing the Electoral College.  Why doesn't this asshat just be honest for the first time in his sorry existence and say outright he despises the constitution?  God, I loath this ilk!  The Great Reckoning cannot come fast enough!

[warpmine]

Citizens against citizens. It's because the government has strayed from the constitution. Imagine a nation that adhered to the constitution - where no one survived on the redistributed largesse of confiscated productivity, and the rule of law stood as a bulwark against tyranny. What would divide the citizens of such a nation to the point of impossible impasse we now face?

Dare to dream

[warpmine]

And I assume this goes hand in hand with abolishing the Electoral College.  Why doesn't this asshat just be honest for the first time in his sorry existence and say outright he despises the constitution?  God, I loath this ilk!  The Great Reckoning cannot come fast enough!

C'mon now, he's as honest as a progressive can be. Twisting words and meanings is par for the course so you have to read between the lines.

[Libertas]

And I assume this goes hand in hand with abolishing the Electoral College.  Why doesn't this asshat just be honest for the first time in his sorry existence and say outright he despises the constitution?  God, I loath this ilk!  The Great Reckoning cannot come fast enough!

C'mon now, he's as honest as a progressive can be. Twisting words and meanings is par for the course so you have to read between the lines.

I hope that is Ezra's head being pushed into that wall!   

[radioman]

How much weight should we give a dead person?

[ToddF]

When the Richard Cohens of the world pulled out the bongs, lit up the lava lamps, got down on the shag carpeting in the back of the van and did the dirty deed with the Jane Fondas of the world, a generation of Ezra Kleins is what was produced.

For that there is no forgiveness.

[Predator Don]

How much weight should we give a dead person?

Brain dead? Or dead as in buried?

[OLJingoist]

How much weight should we give a dead person?

Well the left gives them a vote.