How Middle America Is to Be Dispossessed

Article author: 
Patrick J. Buchanan
Article publisher: 
The American Conservative
Article date: 
12 March 2019
Article category: 
Our American Future
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... How does the left expect to permanently dispossess Middle America?

Let us count the ways.
 
In 2018, over 60 percent of Floridians voted to expand the electorate by restoring voting rights to 1.5 million ex-cons, all of Florida’s felons except those convicted of sex crimes and murder....
 
In California and Oregon, moves are afoot to reduce the voting age to 17 or 16. Understandable, as high schoolers are more enthusiastic about socialism.
 
Last week, a bold attempt was made by House Democrats to lower the U.S. voting age to 16. It failed — this time....
 
Thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown, every adult citizen in California who gets or renews a driver’s license, gets a state ID card, or fills out a change of address form with the Department of Motor Vehicles is automatically registered to vote. Purpose: expand voter rolls to include those who have shown no interest in politics, so they can be located on Election Day and bused to the polls....

Madison wrote in Federalist 10, “democracies … have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”...