Posted on 03/19/2015 9:39:57 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Forcing Americans to vote under threat of legal penalty would help to fundamentally transform America
Forcing Americans to vote under threat of legal penalty would help to fundamentally transform America, President Obama told a town hall-style meeting in Cleveland yesterday.
It is the latest radical leveling scheme that flows from the president’s totalitarian impulses. It is also consistent with his support for “Net Neutrality,” which is a form of censorship and his opposition to the landmark Citizens United decision that affirmed a conservative activist group’s constitutionally guaranteed right to make a movie critical of Hillary Clinton. It is an assault on American democracy itself because one of the ways that people express themselves politically is to stay home on Election Day. Compelled speech is not free speech.
“It would be transformative if everybody voted,” Obama said just months after his party was crushed in off-year congressional elections that gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress.
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This mental freak is coming at us from all sides without stop. He's monomaniacal.
In a nutshell, a monomaniac is "obsessively single-minded on an idea/subject to the point of madness or psychosis".
Are there any questions?
Leni
“....and we want none of it.”
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That’s not what the electorate decided in 2012.
I seem to recall that there was very high voter turnout in police states, but there was only one candidate on the ballot.
Yes (I have a question), with the hydra-headed O running amok, where in H is Congress?
It’s like an Iron Dome standing silent due to too many incoming missiles overload..
My problem is that enough idiots vote voluntarily. We shouldn't be forcing them to the polls.
Curious, what is the penalty for not voting?
They put you in Parliament.
Seriously, they fine you. I can't remember what the fine is - I got the information from an Australian student I met in college years ago - but if you don't pay it I guess they can haul you into court.
He’s a communist! This shows it.
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