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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: marco100   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: NeoCons, "Israel!" and Republicans
Date: 03/31/26 12:30 PM
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See, I don't believe this (that democrats care about leaving people behind).

You don't have to believe they care about leaving people behind. As I said, you can simply be cynical and assume they care only about their power.

Of the two groups involved - the "so tiny that it has never been proven to exist beyond a bare handful of individuals" population of alleged non-citizens voting in person and the tens of millions of people who lack the documentation required by the SAVE act - which would anyone care about if they just wanted to win elections?

It doesn't make sense. There's no reason at all the Democrats would care about the tiny, tiny, tiny number of people that might theoretically be doing in-person voting illegally, compared to even the approximately 1% of adults (2.6 million people) that do indeed lack any type of photo identification (and thus aren't able to do the things you identify above) despite the efforts of lots of liberal groups to try to help them get that photo ID. To say nothing of the 11% of the population that has the photo ID necessary to do all those things but lacks the specific type of ID that the GOP is trying to force as a condition to voting (passport or RealID compliant driver's license).

Again, even if you assume Democrats are nothing but power-hungry monsters the number of alleged in-person illegal voters is so unbelievably tiny compared to the population of even the smallest number of folks who would be excluded by ID laws that it's utterly implausible that Democrats would care at all about the illegal voters vs. the excluded voters.

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Name one, a single, person, who is not a criminal, mentally ill, or addict, who doesn't have a photo I.D. and is unable to easily get one.

Just one, Jack O.
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