So Matthew Vadum has a problem with the idea of people working to help the poor to vote. He carries on at great length about the evils of Welfare, and as most Professional Conservatives like to do, he invokes the Founding Fathers as some sort of quasi deities.
For some time now, it has been very popular on the Right to suggest, both directly and indirectly, that some people are more worthy of the right to vote than others. In times past this idea was propagated against African Americans in forms such as poll taxes, and on the spot literacy tests. Today the idea is applied more broadly against anyone who is poor or Working Class through ridiculously strict voter identification laws, or in some cases campaigns of outright disinformation about when polls are open, where one is to vote etc.
This all seems to stem from a problem that many in the Professional Right seem have around accepting a very simple, irreversible fact.
This is not the 1700's. Nor is it the 1800's. And for over a decade now it's also not been the 1900's. In fact right now, at this very moment (you may want to brace yourself) it is the year Two Thousand and Eleven.
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