“next you’ll say we have to pander to illegal aliens”
The two situations are not in the least equivalent. I do not support illegal aliens voting.
They are equivalent, specifically in that it doesn’t matter whether you’re in favor of it or not, it’ll be rammed down your throat regardless. The natural result of increased suffrage is increasing franchise and increasing suffrage.
The natural result of “we the people” and “the consent of those governed” and “representative government” resulting from the Enlightenment is that the lowest common denominator winning out at the end is as INEVITABLE as the tide rolling in. You cannot stop it. Everything slides toward the mob running roughshod over all dissent. The fact that The Constitution can be amended means that the mob will demand, easelessly, that it be amended until it is completely unrecognizable from its original intent and form.
typo — ceaselessly, not easelessly
To the point, if illegal aliens DO get the vote, you’ll be saying the same thing — that the horse is already out of the barn, we can’t rub them the wrong way, etc.