straightUp wrote:
Good point... V****g isn't just about federal issues. I would offer the same answer, that I did for your jury duty question if not for the fact that unlike jury se******ns, there is no overarching rule that says you have to be a citizen to v**e. The rules are established at each level of government for which the e******n is applied and there are examples throughout our history where non-citizens were allowed to v**e.
For me personally, it's the same rule that I mentioned earlier. I advocate meritocracy. If you are working to contribute toward the community you should have a voice. Period. I don't give a fat rats ass about whether someone is a citizen or not. In fact I advocate for the abolishment of citizenship entirely. It's an entitlement and nothing more. Most people get their citizenship by virtue of being born here and like I said rats and fleas are also born here. So it literally means nothing.
Most criminals are in fact, citizens... that includes rapists, murders, thieves, thugs and t*****rs. That means that being a citizen is NO guarantee that you have any interest in defending or contributing to this country or the people in it, especially if you're a citizen by birth, because these are the people that never had to swear an oath just to be a citizen.
Short of abolishing the elitist concept of citizenship entirely, I would strongly urge that NO ONE can become a citizen without going through the same naturalization process that immigrants have to go through. Take the damned civics test that most US-born citizen can't even pass and swear an oath. THEN we can at least say that a citizen is someone who has at least promised to uphold the national interest.
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