When the incompetent can't vote, we shouldn't either

We all know why felons can't vote in Florida and it's because they're mostly Democrats.  There is no such distinction for the elderly and otherwise deemed incompetent to vote.  It is simply a mean, cruel slap in the face to citizens who have proudly cast their ballots as Americans and suddenly are prohibited from doing so. I just saw it on tv.  Miriam Lancaster, a friend of mine, 100 years feisty, was turned away from the polls because she now has a guardian.  And she's white!!?!

In order to vote she must face a competency hearing, at which I am certain she will be the most intelligent person.   I simply must write, What the Hell is wrong with this state?  So what if they're lunatics or they think Truman is running.  What can it hurt to let them vote?  They've earned the dubious privilege.   There's no Demented Party, other than the GOP that they're going to vote in a block for.  Democracy is not at risk from simply showing these Americans common decency.  But I think they're feelings are greatly at risk from this affront. 

Furthermore, since there clearly is no standard of sanity for the candidates, why must there be one for voters?  Let the competency tests start where they can do some good.  It's time we started demanding a higher standard of treatment from our rulers.  In solidarity we all should stop voting until we all can.  If we are too weak to take this feeble stand, then I guess it is true we get the government we deserve.

Marcus Welby, on hearing his show had been cancelled

"I caught a telephone looking out the window.  It was gazing steadily at a telephone pole.  I wondered if it sensed a connection, like a football looking at a pig." 

-  from Bass Fishing in Outer Space

                                                               

a third party called the antidote?

There is little joy in choosing between getting  poisoned and being contaminated and this describes our present two- party system of oppression. Democrats must be invited in, elected as it were, to make us sick, while it feels like just touching a Republican would do it.

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How odd it seems, that half of Americans prefer their representatives God fearing, when the government as an entity clearly is not, unless it pays homage to God by wreaking havoc among His humblest children. Perhaps this is the Biblical basis for decrying domestic abortion while applauding its export in war.