So the well respected author of Hillbilly Elegy is running for Senate in Ohio, and has gone full on Trump-Crazy.
He thinks we should limit voting to people that have children. This, by the by, would excluded Kamala Harries, our Vice President, because her children are step-children and Pete Buttigieg, our Secretary of Transportation because he is gay and Cory Booker (Senator) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Congresswoman) because they are childless. The people he mentioned by name also "happen" to be People of Color or gay. He thinks childless liberals should not be making policy for this country.
I assumed this would happen at some point. However, I did think it would be more capitalistic. I thought the Republicans would try to limit the vote to land owners and those who can provide "proof" of residency - then give renters a bonus for NOT have a lease (and therefore un-allowed to vote).
But JD Vance has in mind the model of Illiberal Democracy guru, Hungary's Victor Orban. If he can't disenfranchise the liberals through this "childless" plan, then he believes every child should be given the right to vote, but that right is deferred to their parents until their 18th birthday. So if you're a wife and you have 4 children, your husband gets 5 votes.
The “childless left”, he said, have no “physical commitment to the future of this country” yet offer an “elite model” for the American business and political class.
This is what passes for intelligent discussion in Republican spheres now. And it is easy to dismiss this as a stupid ploy for votes. But like Trump's lies were unmasked and people still believe him - and the January 6th insurrection is now called (by Republicans) either a love-fest (Trump), a sightseeing tour or a protest without injury or illegal actions, - or the MAJORITY of Republicans who don't believe that Biden really won the Presidency.
In other words, don't trust logic to rule this party. (As a famous Southern Comedian said, "You can't fix stupid".)
Welcome to the United Sates in 2021.
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