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   leftwingpatriot said, 8 months ago

   Why are you voicing your anger to someone who can’t do anything about it?
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   BrassOrchid said, 8 months ago

   Why spend the money? We already have a system to disenfranchise voters by cancellation of their votes through the casting of illegitimate ballots, which Mort obviously prefers.
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   indybend said, 8 months ago

   Study up, Brass Orchid. There is no evidence of widespread casting of illegitimate ballots. It is a Republican fantasy invented to justify laws that disenfranchise legitimate voters, especially those who tend to vote Democratic.
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   Rx71Wm29 said, 8 months ago

   Amen to that!
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   rvernon said, 8 months ago

   @BrassOrchid

   What a foolish statement.
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   markjoseph125 said, 8 months ago

   Short answer: The Reichpubliscums aren’t interested in democracy; they’re interested in power.
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   Charles Smith said, 8 months ago

   To Bell and Heir: More progaganda and lies in supposed non-political cartoons. Voter fraud is real, and is an affront to anyone with any ethics. Not that your strip has been all that good anyway, but I’m out of here. Sell your leftist crap to someone else.
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   rvernon said, 8 months ago

   @Charles Smith

   I don’t think losing a completely ignorant reader who believes in paranoid fairy tales is going to bother them much.
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   rvernon said, 8 months ago

   @Charles Smith

   …and if you think this is a “supposedly non-political cartoon,” you’re obviously not a regular reader anyway.
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    Gee Man said, 8 months ago

    @Charles Smith

    Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. You’d probably put that down to voter fraud too. It’s about as real.
    Documented voter fraud is vanishingly small – and several states that have passed voter ID laws to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands, if not millions, have investigated, and confirmed that is so. But in Pennsylvania, despite investigations confirming voter fraud is virtually non-existent, for example, the GOP have boasted voter ID laws there will deliver the state for them. Hard to deny that’s the purpose when party officials boast publicly about it!
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    K M said, 8 months ago

    @markjoseph125

    You watch Barry ignore the Constitution by making law through executive fiat, and you have the nerve to say the Republicans are interested in power!? Your political ignorance amazes me. Please, do us all a favor and don’t vote this year, and keep your friends home with you.
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    rvernon said, 8 months ago

    @K M

    He hasn’t “ignored the constitution by making law through executive fiat.” Stop smoking what Breitbart and Fox are handing you.
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    eric sanders said, 8 months ago

    One party is doing that, because IT’S THEIR TURN! Both parties get their turn, but they agreed to alternate. That way, each party is guaranteed someone to find fault with them when their crime is fresh…
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    rvernon said, 8 months ago

    @eric sanders

    When did the Democrats take their turn? This false equivalency stuff is BS.
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    kerb berk said, 8 months ago

    There is a reason that some (all?) Republicans wish to limit democracy. Democracy is a concept that only works on a very small scale, and for a limited time. The founding fathers knew this, and knew of the other problems that democracies have, that is why they set up this country as a democratic republic.
    -——
    As a country we should stop with the exportation of “democracy” as the be all and end all of government. Government is a necessary evil and it must be kept in check by the people. It is exceedingly difficult to keep government in check once it starts paying out largesse from the public treasury, as the voters receiving the largesse have a vested interest in keeping in power those who support further expansion of the same.
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    We need a return to republican (small “r”) ideals and a move away from democratic (small “d”) activities. Oft quoted, still relevant:
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    “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” - Attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville AND to Alexander Tytler (originality is the fine art of forgetting where you heard something --me).
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