EVERYONE WANTS ME TO VOTE, well not everyone | Eastern North Carolina Now

   UPDATE OCTOBER 2016: I am throwing some political rants up for your perusal and possible a chuckle or two. Some are just to make you think and be more informed about your choices when you vote. I hope to provoke some thought beyond the meme and cliche stuff we see on social media. If you disagree feel free to cast you ballot as you see fit on November 9, 2016.

    Both Google and Facebook have had pop up reminders on my first sign in asking me if I am registered to vote. These popped up on my page without me searching on clicking on anything.

    These are actual screen shots that appeared on my computer when I signed in to both Google and Facebook

   

    I find it somewhat ironic that the two major computer sources for superficial information that is often wrong and is not often fact based and verified would want little old me to vote. My other question is somewhat more esoteric. How did their algorithm let me slip by their selection criteria since any BCN reader knows that I am 'Just slightly to the right of center!"

    We have been told since we were children that it is our duty to vote. Universal suffrage has been the goal of many since we started this experiment in a representative government.

    Somewhere in the cloud of dust created by the 'EVERYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO VOTE' we lost sight of the fundamental overriding principle of a self- governing populace. That of an INFORMED vote. In today's everybody must be equal world regardless of whatever, we may have put the nail in the coffin of our republic. In Chicago and other areas, even a nail in the coffin does not disqualify someone from voting. Is voting a right or privilege? The debate continues.

    If the only requirement for voting is that you be alive and breathing, then perhaps we have fulfilled the fears of the original intent and sealed our fate at the same time.

The legacy of a highly restricted franchise was no accident. Not only did the founders generally approve of denying women and non-whites the right to vote, but they thought it advisable that qualified white men should meet certain requirements, most often based on net-worth. They deemed wealth as not only a sign of someone being smart, capable, but hopefully also being beyond corruption because they weren't economically vulnerable; the founders feared poor people would sell their votes.

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    I am not advocating preventing people from voting based on the HOLY THREE (OR FOUR OR FIVE ETC). I am advocating that we establish a threshold somewhat higher that breathing as the entry point for casting a vote that will determine how we run this country.Think about it, perhaps this everybody thing is not working out so well when we can buy and sell votes with the public funds.