SINISTER PURPOSE TO VOTER SUPRESSION

The real purpose of voter ID laws goes much deeper than creating an electoral win for the minority party. Of course, it hurts people to have a state government exclude them from voting. Those excluded look for a reason: they are poor, they are a minority (black, Latino, Asian, or Native American), they are under educated, they live in the wrong neighborhood, etc. Whatever the “excuse”, most of us believe it is because the party in power has profiled them as Democrats. I know of instances where Democrats have gerrymandered districts to win or hold seats in elected offices so it is not an excusive Republican thing, which makes it appear that the objective is power. The objective of this post is to argue that power is central but there is more to it than just power, something more sinister.

What seems to be a political paradox is that Republicans seem to want their political party, a minority party, to have power over the majority. This harkens back to the royal prerogative. They want to have one king or queen with enough followers to sustain their lavish living style. It could be one dictator except that system often degenerates into a battle because it takes terror and coercion to maintain power. Power by deference is suppose to be peaceful; at least it was usually peaceful. The royalty exchanged doing nice things for his or her followers in exchange for that deference. Thousands and thousands of years of human history has proved that it never works; the royalty always got greedy and the followers suffered. We see this same phenomenon in just about every modern corporation in one form or another. Some corporations get outlandishly greedy for example Enron while other operate profitably for extended periods.

What voter ID is about is to try to do the impossible, which is to establish a royalty “party”. They have the drive, determination, and persistence to do it but they do not seem to be able to get it through their heads that they do not have the numbers even with diminished numbers of voters due to voter ID laws and gerrymandering. We rejected King George III and replaced him with George Washington. Our founding fathers established our republic and wrote the constitution to prevent that from ever happening; they put the power in the hands of the majority. The current Republican Party is laboring under the impression that they want a small number of rich people ruling a massive lower class; a lower class sufficient in number to maintain them in a life style they want is not constitutional; the Republican Party is constitutional but their objective is not. To do what they want they will have to destroy our government as we know it—drown it in a bath tub. Does that sound like something Grover Norquist might want to do?  

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