Voting To Win

 Democrats want to make it easier to vote, so that more people will vote. If everybody votes, Democrats win. Republicans want to make it more difficult to vote, to reduce the number of people who vote. If only middle class white people vote, Republicans win. Its that simple. The motive, as always, is to win. Both sides are hard at work trying to implement their agendas, the Democratic agenda obviously favoring the American people as a whole, just like Democratic policies do. Republicans are passing restrictive voting measures in conservative states, while Democrats just passed a sweeping voting reform act in the House of Representatives, which shall surely die in the Senate amidst Republican filibuster. damned, elitist Republicans, and their ignorant dirt poor working supporters. The two parties are completely divided. republicans are shortening early voting time spans, making it more difficult to vote by mail and to absentee vote, increasing identification requirements, while Democrats want to make voter registration automatic for everyone eligible and allow voting in as many ways as possible, including online and by phone, as well as snail mail. True to their names, the Democratic party prefers universal suffrage and governance by the masses, while Republicans want the country to be ruled by an elite class of white Christian conservatives. A vast majority of ordinary Americans, especially minorities, have nothing to gain by republican rule. The founders much preferred to Republican plan. they were universally fearful of true democracy, considered it mob rule, and considered ninety nine percent of the American people unqualified to govern themselves. Among the famous founders, only Thomas Jefferson believed in the ability of the common man. And, so far, the United Stats has been governed by an elite class, at fists by the landed wealthy white men, and now by our corporate masters, the billionaires, with complete approval by nearly everyone, so it seems. Times have changed, but on in the details, not in the basic scheme. Gore Vidal once said that the half of the population which doesn't bother to vote is the half which is intelligent enough to understand that their vote means nothing, that what they vote for is predetermined by, you guessed it, our corporate billionaire masters. They purchase power by purchasing the people who run for office, Democrats and Republicans alike. The fact remains that to vote Republican is to vote for a system of elite corporate governance, while to vote Democratic is to vote for mob rule, where we all have at least some measure of political power.