Posted on 04/25/2021 6:46:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
I have been a lifelong member of the Delta Airlines frequent flyer program. I have flown on Delta Airlines across the United States and around the world more than 200 times. For many flights, I was able to use frequent flyer miles and not have to pay anything more than a processing fee.
It pains me to see Delta Airlines jump into the leftist mire over fair and lawful voting procedures. Of late, Delta Airlines has declared that the state of Georgia's recent legislation to install safeguards in the state's voting procedures is somehow limiting the vote, discriminatory, and unfair to minorities.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Delta Airlines itself requires a government issued ID to board any one of their planes, 24/7, 365 days a year, for all the years they've been in business.
Delta Airlines: So Wrong
Do they realize that most minorities are insulted by the notion that they lack the wherewithal to obtain proper ID? Does Delta know that among all races, a majority of Americans agree that safeguarding the integrity of elections is more important than making it easier to vote? Is the CEO of Delta and is their Board aware of the irony of declaring Georgia's legislation to be discriminatory?
Probably not: to perceive irony, one first has to have some semblance of logic. If you cannot board a plane without legitimate government-issued ID, why in the world should you ever be allowed to vote in America?
As a corporation, does Delta regard itself as discriminatory because it requires all passengers to show a government-issued ID? If this overly woke corporation was serious about the quest for no ID in election voting, would they not alter their own rules (and the rules of the Federal Aviation Administration) related to boarding their commercial flights?
Why, exactly, does Delta forbid everyone, include pilots, flight crew, and ground crew to board their planes without ID? What could be the problem? Surely they're not concerned about safety, or the legitimacy of ticket sales, or passengers not being who they claim to be, right?
Minimizing Voter Suppression
If Delta is willing to forgo ID when allowing passengers to board their planes, then and only then, they can make statements about the state of Georgia's attempt to secure free and fair elections.
Ensuring that the potential for fraud in elections is minimized is not about discrimination. It is about ensuring that everyone’s lawful vote is duly counted.
To not require voter ID in elections is a form of voter suppression. How so? Suppose I am a lawful voter, and I vote in the same election as people who are not required to show ID. Any non-citizen or illegal voter, in essence, can suppress my vote with their vote.
If I vote for candidate A, and a non-qualified voter illegally casts a vote for candidate B, my vote is neutralized, actually suppressed. Someone who should not have been voting renders my vote as meaningless.
The Indelible Responsibility
Georgia, similar to all other states, has the vital and indelible responsibility to protect my vote and the vote of every other lawful voter. To do less is to suppress the vote of lawful voters. How hard is that to understand? At every level of government, if a jurisdiction is lax in its efforts to ensure that only lawful votes are counted, de facto, they are promulgating voter suppression.
Why does virtually every other country on Earth require a government issued ID before one can vote in their respective elections? How is it that among nations around the globe, the United States has become lax? Why is the United States, supposedly the bedrock of democracy, now among the handful of nations whose elections are looked upon with scorn?
Who exactly has a vested interest in diminishing the potential for free and fair elections? Could it be a political party that fears, or more accurately knows, that it could not win elections if it were not for fraud?
Bye Bye, So Long
So Delta Airlines, as much as I prefer otherwise, I'm going to reverse a three decade-long trend, and seek to board other airlines when they can conveniently fly me to my chosen destination.
Until you wake up, and that means stop participating in this woke version of corporate extortion, you must suffer the consequences accordingly. You are not contributing to free and fair elections and are not strengthening our representative democracy. You are bringing it down, and you are doing so in a way that could become permanent.
Shame on Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola, Disney World, and all of the woke corporations who have abandoned any semblance of integrity, rectitude, and, need I say it, patriotism.
Delta, Coke and other woke corporations should form task forces to assist US Citizens and Georgia Citizens to obtain IDs sufficient to vote, fly and do a long list of other things that require an ID. Of course they will not because it will show that the inability to obtain an ID is a sham.
Delta's hypocrisy is extremely disappointing. They still fly to China don't they? And if they were really serious they would leave Atlanta as their major hub (which would probably out them out of business). In a year in which all the airlines are hurting mightily their corporate leadership chooses to do this cheap political stunt. I will avoid flying Delta ... and United too.
Although I was on board with Trump's protection of domestic industry, I would like to see non-American carriers allowed to have routes in the U.S., to improve the bad service and rudeness of the left wing domestic airlines.
I wish more black citizens would voice their disgust with Liberals' incessant challenge to minorities' mental abilities!!
Very much ditto.
Any politician (and voter) who does not agree with voter ID checks should be made to fly on a plane where passengers can provide no ID as well.
Let’s see how many sign up for the flight of their life.
I wonder how many other people are coming to the same conclusion???
Delta has publicly declared that demanding Government ID is RACIST, Nothing Prevents the State AG from Criminally Prosecuting them for Civil Rights Violations, demanding ID. Use their OWN Statements as the predicate for the Criminal Prosecution.
Then make it a Civil Tort in Small Claims Court for Any Resident that was Required to produce Identification by a Non Government Entity. $500 in damages for everyone subjected to this Blatant Racism in Small Claims Court would fix this overnight.
Sadly I do have a bunch of miles to burn with Delta (and United). Once this China virus is over, I’ll burn them, then burn my FF Card, at least from Delta.
My big problem, now, is when I do go overseas, I NEVER want to go on US carriers. If I want to see cows, I’ll go to a farm (or a feminist rally), not be forced to deal with them serving me food on an airplane.
No more taxpayer bailouts for these woke airlines.
They can sink or swim on their own; if their business model is unworkable, too bad....that’s their problem.
The evil most fundamental to the decadence is contempt for truth--truth for its own sake. The foundation of Western Civilisation is the quest for truth, wherever it presents itself, and the realisation that logic and justice are part of the quest.
Those who value truth, logic, and justice will use the clarity of this article to help them correct any misconceptions they may have and any mistakes they have made in the past. Many who are overwhelmed by the decadence are actually benevolent and of good intentions but, in their confusion, have lost site of what is to be valued and the pathway to it.
Then Delta's a racist airline - don't they understand black people can't get ID's? Asking for one to get on a plane is Jim Crow... Jim Eagle... KKK stuff.
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There's Zoom...
...and you can blandly tell your oh-so-woke coworkers that by using Zoom, you are cutting your carbon footprint!
One more company to the list of “you wont get a dime” of my money
Dead people can't get current IDs.
Red Dwarf Ping!
LISTER: Look, Rimmer, death isn't the handicap it used to be in the olden days. It doesn't screw your career up like it used to.Arnold Judas Rimmer was right, you are a hater!
RIMMER: That's what they say, Lister. But if you had two people coming for a job, and one of them was dead, which one would you pick?
LISTER: It depends which is better qualified.
RIMMER: Bull pats! When was the last time you saw a dead newsreader? LISTER: Channel 27 have a hologram reading the news.
RIMMER: Oh, groovy, funky Channel 27. Big smegging deal. You livvies hate us deadies.
I feel the same way. I was very loyal to Delta and was platinum medallion. No more.
Last time I flew Delta, they lost my luggage twice - coming and going. That was 1993 and nothing will get me on one of their planes again.
If you cannot board a plane without legitimate government-issued ID, why in the world should you ever be allowed to vote in America?
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