I am a proud New Hampshire citizen. I am definitely dissatisfied with the criminally negligent and unconstitutional movements coming out of my state legislature. And college students now have even more reason to be outraged than I do, or you do, or nearly anyone else. Bill O'Brien, our incompetant and reactionary House Speaker, has decided that you, as college students, are not valuable enough to vote in this state. And, as you might guess, as a GOPer, Bill O'Brien has a stake in repressing your votes. Partisanship; and he's openly stating that.
Quoting TPM,
"They go into these general elections, they'll have 900 same day registrations, which are the kids coming out of the schools and basically doing what I did when I was a kid, which is [vote liberal]," he said. "They don't have life experience and they don't have life experience and they just vote their feelings and they're taking away the town's ability to govern themselves, it's not fair."
This is the single most grotesque, unctious, foul politicking I've seen in my life- and I've been watching Teabaggers for more time than I should. This is the disenfranchisement of students because they don't agree with his biases and his viewpoints. This is legislative working and fixing of a presidential election. This is the regression and walking back of the one good thing that came of Vietnam. This is the repression of the votes from educated youth, or, in other terms, Democratic base voters.
Now, for one second, I ask you to consider a dystopian parallel to the current situation. What if some tiny burg in a completely and unchangeably blue state decided to supress a tiny group of GOP voters? 15, 20, 25 votes? There would be swarms, infernoes of rage in the GOP base and the independant sphere, even from those on our base such as myself. There is no chance that any Dem could ever get away with this- and we wouldn't, as we have no interest in warping our Constitution!
Now, if I may, I must issue a rallying cry to the students in my state. Those in our community colleges, to those at UNH, but specifically aimed at Dartmouth.
You've turned eighteen. You deserve to vote. Fight for that right! There's no way that our youth will stand by this! We have no reason to fear the shady figures walking around the halls of our Congress. They work for us. Let's send letters to the editor, put up signs, and protest however we may to regain the rights that are being stolen. No one will do it for us. Its our job now.
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