Trump, Going Ever I.D. Lower

SEVERAL TIMES on this website we have announced that Donald Trump has once again gone low, gone lower than ever before, and that surely, surely he could go no lower. Each time, we were wrong. Now it becomes necessary to reconfigure the paradigm, with the possibility emerging that, like a black hole, there is simply no depth to which The Felon cannot and will not descend. In a bipartisan vote, Congress has passed the "Twenty First Century Road to Housing" bill, which would go are, if not quite far enough, to alleviate one of our nation's most presssing and chronic concerns; a shortage of housing, and an acute shortage of affordable housing. Trump, slithering along in themid as usual, refuses to sign into law this urgently needed piece of legislation until Congress passes the so called, misnamed "Save America Act", which would make voting difficult for most, andall but impossible for the poor, by requiring that every voter present not only a single piece of identification, usually a driver's license, but also, a whole host of others, more esoteric documents, such as birth certificates and passports, and "Real ID.s". Knowing full well the most people do not possess these documents, and would have to go to some trouble to obtain them. The obvious object is to make it more difficult to vote in a country in which often far fewer than half of the population, less than half of all eligible votrs, votes. The more difficult it is to vote, the fewer people vote, and a huge perentage of the effectively disenfranchised are the lower middle class and poor. Maybe it shouldn't be this way. Maybe the poor should step right up, overcome all obstacles, bite the proverbial bullet, and cast ballots. But, alas,they for the most part are too busy simply trying to survive by working long hours at exploitation wages to engage in massive amounts of bureaucratic paper work. The mmore diffficult it is to vote, the fewer voters, and the more likely Republicans are to win elections. The more inclusive and expansive the democracy, the more the teeming masses of Madison's "lesser sort" get to the ballot box, the more likely democrats, liberals and democratic socialists are to win elections. Republicans also advocate for fewer voting places, and fewer ballot boxes, for the same reason. This is actually in keeping with our founder's intentions if not ours, who designed not a democracy, but a democratic republic, in which the poor uneducated masses, Madison's "lesser sort" would be represented in noble, enlightened fashion by Madison's "better sort", the wealthy land owning elite,usually (always) men of fair complexion such as himself. We now see how that turned out. So did Madsion, by the way, who regretted our oligarchical constitution within five years of helping write it. His regret was that he had not helped create a democracy, but rather, an oligarchy of the wealthy elite, and it soon became evident to him that the elite had no intention of governing for the poor, as they had promised. Trump and his fellow Republican prevaricators insist that the American electoral system is rife with fraud and abuse, that illegal immigrants with brown skin are streaming across the Rio Grande, infliltrating America's fair cities, stealing elections for Democrats by voting in them, then, perhaps, slinking back across the border to resume their lives of poverty. The possibility of illegally cast votes for Republican candidates somehow gets lost in the shuffle. Trump is perfectly happy and willing to allow America's critical housing shortage to linger and cause more suffering for the sake of an imaginary problem which exists only in the deep dark recesses of his conspicuously tortured, mentally ill "mind". With the current congressional composition, overriding his veto is nearly impossible. What is not impossible is voting Trump and his gang of quasi fascists out of power, come November.