It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the most merciful thing in the world I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
You know, there are multiple levels of fail here... from Muir clearly feeling the people in general and women in specific should support the plan that would destroy their power to vote, to his supporting the system of the franchise that fell apart during the first generation. The generation of the Founding Fathers themselves are the ones who changed this. Which I guess finally gives Muir his eternal Communist enemy, albeit for a very loose definition of Communist.
There it is again. The asinine “skin in the game” trope. I can’t remember who but someone in the peanut gallery a couple of years ago invoked it in explaining why only property owners should have the right to vote.
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Yes, as if, you know, being affected by the government's decisions isn't having 'skin in the game'. It's clear to anyone outside the bubble that all they're saying is "How dare the poors have a voice!" Hell, there's also the colossal ignorance involved here--this didn't change thanks to some sort of conspiracy, it changed because it was unsustainable. The UK kept it up longer thanks to tradition and elite backing but with ever lower requirements and bigger loopholes. And even that fell apart after WWI, except in Northern Ireland, where keeping it going to keep the Protestants in control eventually backfired.
DeleteIndeed, it's interesting to note that the Peanut Gallery all go for less ridiculously repressive versions of this bullshit--I've spotted the taxpayer one and the cryptofascist's favorite, the "Starship Troopers" citizenship through service idea. Each of which are so ludicrously open to abuse that you can tell these people didn't think about them that much. Just more than Muir thinks about his shit.