Politico: Democratic Presidential Primary About To Get Radical

Breitbart.com ^ | February 10, 2016 | Breitbart News,Edward-Isaac Dovere,Gabriel Debenedetti

[Little Ray]

Well, my wife would kill me if she read that post, but it does not make it less true.

[MasterGunner01]

Silly me, I thought it already had.

[MayflowerMadam]

Actually, Ann Coulter has been saying it for years, so it’s not my original idea.

[Cboldt]

Universal suffrage is a bad idea. It is really a death sentence for a free country. I’m not sure what the criteria ought to be, I have no problem with women voting, nor do I have a problem with young people voting, per se. One way to narrow the field is to preclude those who obtain government largess from voting. Welfare or vote, pick one. There might be a way to extend that to the crony class, too.

[mrsmel]

I agree. It was women’s groups which pushed Prohibition, and women have voted for the nanny state in large numbers ever since we got the vote. No disrespect to the good conservative female voters here at FR and nation-wide, but we are outnumbered, and I believe that it’s at least partly the influence of the female vote which has steered the GOP to the left.

But I also agree with property and tax requirements to vote-why should the wolves get to outvote the sheep on what’s for dinner?

[mrsmel]

You have a point. I just commented that I don’t believe that the wolves should be able to outvote the sheep on what’s for dinner, but there are wolves of different stripes-the highest and lowest echelons seem to manage to outvote the hard-pressed middle. I don’t know the answer to that.

[MayflowerMadam]

Really. Only producing Americans — requirements TBD — should be allowed to vote. And then, only after passing a test in English and basic civics.

[Steve_Seattle]

Why are minorities so in love with a screechy old owl like Hillary? It’s not as if she exudes “cool.”

[Steve_Seattle]

"One way to narrow the field is to preclude those who obtain government largess from voting."

Would that include retirees living - totally or in part - on social security? Or anyone enrolled in Obamacare?

In theory, there is some merit to your idea, because many government benefits can almost be considered as bribes to buy votes, but in practice your idea might end up excluding about 70% of eligible voters.

[Cboldt]

I wouldn’t include Social Security in that, no. It’s all academic - once given, it is nigh impossible to take the franchise away. I think universal suffrage is literally a death sentence to a nation; which is why universal suffrage is pushed by the globalists and communists.