The reason it won’t happen is that if adults have an ID card, it will take at most several nanoseconds for a bill to be proposed making the ID a requirement to get hired. And then the business lobby will lose their shit. On this issue, Republicans are practicing anticipatory obedience.
Absolutely; but also make it required like in many other countries. The real problem with Voter ID is that it ties the right to vote to something you have no right to; that's a dangerous precedent.
Of course. I'm saying that the Democrats need to call their bluff. Voter ID was always a wedge issue, so quit dancing around it.
If Kamala doesn’t explain thoroughly how she plans to tame inflation, I will have no choice but to vote for Trump for the third time. 1851608072587784346 is not a valid tweet id
If y’all actually know any Republicans, and try to talk Trump with them, the thing I notice is they don’t see any connection between what he says campaigning and legislation or policy.
I agree 100%. I think it makes political sense in that conservatives do have a winnable issue re the laxness of voter rolls. Dems ought to be able to nullify that with pushing a national ID. Plus, if it's national, an ID isn't an DMV issue anymore, and across the six states that I've lived in, there is no more soul-crushing collision with the bureaucracy than the DMV. Plus, Real ID doesn't work very well. I've had to help several people move from Delaware to Maryland and vice versa and those two states' computers do not connect. There's always something. And I got a double dose of that the past couple of days working as a provisional ballot judge for early voting. I've heard some real tales about people struggling to prove their Maryland residence. And as you said later, proving identity shouldn't be an inherent function of driving. I agree.
That lack of connection between what the candidate says and what actual policy he advocates is traditionally called "lying." Somehow, not so in Trump's case.
I don't agree that the voter rolls are lax. This is a Republican talking point which we don't need to accept. In every state that I've registered to vote (which is now up to two), I needed to prove my citizenship in order to register to vote. I don't know what's going on in these states that somehow get their voter rolls full of noncitizens (at least according to the Republicans who claim that the voter rolls are full of noncitizens that need to be purged), but the time to verify citizenship is when the person is registering to vote. Republican run states that have recently done big purges of the voter rolls in order to get "noncitizens" off - Florida, Texas and Virginia - are either incompetent when they are registering people to vote, or they do check citizenship when registering people to vote and are purging people who are very likely to be valid voters. Virginia basically admitted this - the people they're purging were people who went to the DMV and didn't check the "I am a US Citizen box and wish to register to vote" on the DMV form. If I'm at the DMV and I'm already registered to vote, I'm not gonna check that box because I don't want to register to vote again - I'm already registered - but Youngkin is saying that people who don't check that box need to be purged from the voter rolls. And the ********ing Supreme Court agrees with him! Finally, the number of people they're unregistering dwarfs the number of votes cast fraudulently, by orders of magnitude. The real voter fraud is Republicans suppressing the vote through shenanigans like this.
Yet the "reasonable" ones will deflect criticism of what he says with "policy not personality" so please square that circle.
This is said so often as a cliche that it must ultimately be true, but in NC, I’ve had good experiences except when taking my kids for their learners permits and DLs. And even those weren’t truly atrocious, just meh.
I didn't want to get in to the "DMV sucks" talking points, but in two states over the last couple of years, the DMV hasn't been horrible. California was OK getting my kid his permit and then license. Nevada was really pretty good getting my own license (and registering to vote). It's more chaotic than a lot of other interactions (e.g. going to the bank) because there are so many services that the DMV is somehow expected to provide. I suspect that in red states there's a self fulfilling prophecy that government sucks, so we're going to underfund it, and then point at how bad the service is as an example of how government sucks.
The DMV doesn't suck here. It's called the OMV, and that sucks. For most things, you can go to a private company to do what you need. They charge money, but don't suck. They don't register you to vote.