It’s called suffrage, the right to vote. As an American citizen, our right to vote is perhaps the most valuable of all our assets. So essential is it to the democratic process, the right to vote has been the subject for centuries of attempts to suppress it via a “poll tax,” via race, age, gender, or “previous condition of servitude” (read: slavery.)
Women’s suffrage was won in 1920. It had taken fifty years from the time blacks were allowed to vote (1870) until women were. Another forty-four years to outlaw those pesky poll taxes (1964,) and, finally, seven years after that to grant eighteen-year olds the right to vote (1971.)
Our citizens have fought long and hard for their right to vote.
So why is it that Michelle Malkin, who spends her days and nights arrogantly claiming to be an American “patriot,” who almost single-handedly spawned the Tea Party, that disconnected-from-reality group of disconnected citizens, is willing to give up her vote so she wouldn’t have to pay her taxes?
In, “House Votes to Allow Puerto Rico to Become 59th State,” Malkin last week wrote,
“It wouldn’t bother me in the least if I didn’t have representation in the House or Senate — I rarely do anyway — or couldn’t vote for president, if the tradeoff was that I didn’t have to pay US income taxes…”
(Of course, she was writing to stop Puerto Ricans from sharing the benefits of full American citizenship, including gaining the right to vote.)
Can you believe it? How patriotic! Is this how we “refresh the tree of Liberty,” Michelle? Give up one of the most prized possessions we have as free citizens, our right to vote, our right to say who makes the most essential decisions of democracy? And you would sell your votes for a few measly thousand dollars, Michelle?
Every time I think of Michelle Malkin, I think of a few things. I think what a terrible childhood she must have had, to have turned into the hate-monger that she is. I think, here’s a woman who is a U.S. citizen only because she was born on American soil, and yet she would take that right of citizenship away from others, including, evidently, herself, and by extension, her own children.
Here’s a woman who wrote, “the custom of granting automatic citizenship at birth to children of tourists and temporary workers … tourists, and to countless ‘anchor babies’ delivered by illegal aliens on American soil, undermines the integrity of citizenship…”
Here’s a woman born to Philippine citizens, who wrote a book titled, “In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror.”
(You’re familiar with American attempts at Asian “internment,” right?)
Here’s a woman, born to foreign national parents, who wrote a book titled, “Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces.”
Here’s a woman who claims to be a patriot, yet spends her days and nights writing about how she thinks most of America isn’t “American” enough. A woman who hates homosexuals, and anyone not fashioned from whatever she thinks is the “real America,” (which, by the way, would totally exclude her self.)
I also think, here’s a foul-mouthed woman whose stock in trade is hate, and who, along with her home-schooling husband, is raising children. And that scares me.
Now, I can also think, here’s a woman who would sell the very tool of democracy for a few measly bucks.
Yes, Michelle. How terribly “American.”