Posted on 07/29/2021 8:41:30 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Washingtonians love to complain about taxation without representation. But for me and my fellow noncitizens, it is a fact of political life that we submit to unquestioningly year after year, primary after primary, presidential election after presidential election. Nearly 15 million people living legally in the United States, most of whom contribute as much as any natural-born American to this country’s civic, cultural and economic life, don’t have a say in matters of politics and policy because we — resident foreign nationals, or “aliens” as we are sometimes called — cannot vote.
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Older than that with LBJ’s Box 13
Typical liberal: Argumentum ex ignorantia,
i.e. I don’t know why x is true, therefore x is false. Logic in the NYT rarely gets better.
Born 1986, so answer is yes.
BTW, I messed up my post; she was born in Vancouver, Canada and raised in Switzerland. She currently lives in Brooklyn IINM.
Once you can vote, by extension, why can’t you run and serve?
Here is a compromise offer: All aggrieved non-citizens will be allowed to leave immediately (felons can leave after they have served their criminal sentences).
There is no good reason why the NYT should continue to exist.
A country consists of citizens. People passing through are visitors.
The NYT wants this country destroyed, and all Whites eliminated after their money is confiscated.
Paint murals in the street in front of their homes! Watch the property values drop.
Yeah - I’ve heard that too. I countered with why then can’t we take part in China’s political system then?
Then they blocked me. :)
If you’re a non-citizen, no one is keeping you here: Return to your homeland and spare us your bitching.
By the authors logic, that non-citizens are impacted by elected official choices, why restrict the franchise to residents?
We can just open up our elections to everyone around the world! After all, we impact other countries, so it’s only fair they vote for who is in charge of us.
/s in case it is not blindingly obvious.
Good idea. However, I would restrict the vote for illegals to those originating from countries that allow US citizens to vote in their elections - a "reciprocal" right. It's only fair, or should I say, it's a matter of equity.
“ At that point, life becomes what you can obtain by force of arms. ”
Well, duh…and who is now in control of all the arms? I don’t mean your personal security weapon…I mean the big fire, the stuff that can wipe out entire civilizations.
Endorsing nationalism isn’t compromise. It’s compromised.
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If you want to vote, become a naturalized citizen.
If you prefer to keep one foot in this country and the other in your home country, then you don't get to vote here.
-PJ
She should vote with her feet and move to a country where she can set the rules
This stupid twit is free to vote in her own country’s elections.
” what is the point of having a country if the the franchise is expanded to *everyone*, including those who have no stake in the consequences of an election?”
It’s analogous to public housing.
Give someone free or subsidized housing and look what they do to it.
Why vote at all, if non citizens can vote? Doesn’t this greatly reduce the value of citizenship is non citizens vote, as they do not have the same concerns in governance and life as legal citizens? And if being a citizen is diminished so much, why do the Democrats want to import aliens to replace the current citizen voters?
The answer is that the take over of the US, and the establishment of a totalitarian “one party” state is ongoing. Non citizens will vote so that no one needs to vote, as the Democratic Fascists will take care of total control of all our lives. Think of the time and money saved by eliminating all elections, the Democrat’s ultimate goal.
Ask her why only the US should have to expand the voter rolls this way.
Also ask her how many countries’ elections she is currently voting in.
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