So, you thought the
Journal editorials were bad? I'm sifting through my free-sample copy of
Investor's Business Daily, perusing the charts and tables, when I get to the `Insights' page and spit out my imaginary coffee.
Now, I'm not going to waste your time complaining about every one of their wrong-headed, capitalist-pig opinions. (Gee, guess which side they take on Social Security?) But one article deserves special attention -- it's so galling, so nakedly cruel it may be useful as a progressive recruitment tool for years. In "Sowing Wild Votes," the IBD editorial board (which probably consists of Ken Lay and a full-length mirror) comes out swinging against the Count Every Vote Act. Oooh, that just
sounds un-American, don't it?
For years it's been common knowledge among progressives and low-income workers that the moneyed class wants to limit the number of eligible voters. Only now do we have this desire for disenfranchisement printed openly in black and white. Take this charmer for a start:
Setting aside Election Day as a holiday takes foolishness to a new level. The impulse behind the holiday idea is, of course, to make it easier to vote. But we have to ask ourselves: Is this a good thing? No.
Damn, fool, don't just come out and say it! You're giving the game away! Can't you just mutter some vague "raises troubling questions" jazz about fraud and leave it at that?
Now, of course we know why the inheritance class wants to keep the voting population as low as possible -- "more voters" equals "more average-joe voters" equals " more GOP congressmen going back to the private sector." But even the IBD wouldn't be so crass as to admit that we need to keep out people who might vote for the "wrong" candidate. Right?
Relaxing the barriers through a faux holiday and flooding voters' roles [sic] with people who lost their franchise when they chose to violate our laws ultimately will lead to the wrong choices being made.
Oh man. Didn't Katherine Harris and Kenneth Blackwell teach you anything? You don't say this kind of thing out loud. Next you're going to start calling poor people "lazy." Wait a minute --
It is a hallmark of Democrats' thought process, however. They want voting to be made easy. [Consider their] attempts to establish voting via the Web for those who are too lazy to leave the house to cast a ballot.
Jesus! Tell it to the people who waited for eight hours in the rain in Ohio! Any other insults you want to blurt out?
What we need are more informed and motivated voters, not impulse voters who were put on the roles [sic -- I really think they're calling them `rolls' now] simply because they picked up a driver's license. Voting should not be an afterthought that can be taken care with as little effort as possible. To do so negates the votes of Americans who give enough thought to the process that they will seek it out to participate.
And they think Democrats are elitist.