Hey, lady.
You're a friend of a friend of mine. You posted to a meme she got from me and passed along on her own Facebook page, a quote from Pennsylvania State Senator Daylin Lynch: "If you have to stop people voting to win elections, your ideas suck."
You questioned the veracity and truth of the statement that there is essentially zero voter fraud, when for you it's apparently a big issue.
In the middle of our conversation, you said that Planned Parenthood is just peachy, and you volunteer at a large Texas city's food bank because you can't afford to send them money, and that you're a bisexual pagan who's a single mother, so you're not a conservative right-wing nut job but that I've obviously assumed that you are.
Okay, that's all good. But then I have to ask you - if you're all those things you mentioned, and if you're not a conservative right-wing nut job: Why is this fictitious "voter fraud" problem such a big deal for you? Why are you not seeing through the lies?
(And by the way, since when is the New York Times or the Washington Post in any way "liberal"?)
In your responses to me, I counted at least five right-wing lies that you seem to have swallowed without any critical thinking.
First: The idea that voter fraud is just rampant everywhere in the US, when I've directed you to two articles that reference studies that demonstrate that it's rarer than the proverbial needle in the haystack (and then your objection that you shouldn't have to read them because I should provide proof of my assertion, when lady, that's the proof!).
Second: The argument that getting an ID is not a big deal, nor is it hard, and anyway, it's only a poll tax if it's labeled that, not if it's a fee to get ID so you can vote if the state requires ID (which is WHY it's unconstitutional, by the way - because people shouldn't have to pay one red cent in order to vote).
Third and Fourth: Your ridiculous argument that people who aren't informed shouldn't vote, with reference specifically to the homeless, who apparently are also "too irresponsible to hold on to a piece of paper" (their ID) and thus don't deserve to vote. Lady, if being informed were a requirement to vote, I'd support it, because then about two-thirds of the GOP base couldn't vote any more. Except that's also known as a literacy test, which is likewise unconstitutional.
Fifth, and this is the one that burns me up the most, oddly: the idea that there is any liberal media left in this nation anywhere outside the Daily Show. When you say that the New York Times and the Washington Post have a "decidedly left-leaning slant," I just can't take you seriously any more. At BEST, they're moderate news sources.
And actually, I've just thought of a sixth thing that you did during our short conversation that makes me think you're so clueless that a bag of hammers would outrank you on the IQ scale: that first statement you made. You know, where you said:
If you can't show an ID to vote, how can you cash a check or live in a home?
(I've been kind and edited out your spelling errors for the benefit of my readership.)
Here's a free clue, honey: not being financially solvent enough to cash a check does not disqualify you from citizenship. Neither does not having a home. And there are MANY people out there in both those boats, who are still citizens and still entitled to vote.
So, to sum up, that's two arguments that homeless people are not worthy enough to vote, one argument that something that's been ruled unconstitutional is still okay, and two right-wing lies that have been repeated enough that you think they're true (the liberal media and the irresponsible homeless person). Not to mention your utter cluelessness about cashing checks and having homes.
And you wonder why I think you're a right-wing nut job? When you're spouting every Fox News talking point out there? When you question whether there's a war on women when we see evidence of it every single day?
You're the GOTea Party's dream, babe. You're the reason they know they can f*ck you over and you'll still pull the lever for their candidates.
It's a real shame that you have the right to vote, and that you're going to exercise it, when you're this fundamentally uninformed. Especially when you think uninformed people shouldn't vote.
As I said when you insisted you weren't a right-wing nut job:
When you do that kind of thing, when you say that kind of thing, it sounds like right-wing bias, yes. And yes, it does make you sound like a conservative nut job. Anyone who continues to believe that kind of thing is, in fact, on the side of the right wing. You may not think you are, but by agreeing with their lies and buying into them as if they're real problems instead of a smoke screen, you're buying everything they're selling.
And that's far more of a problem than this fictitious "voter fraud" crap.