Trump Pushes Vile Idea that Voting is a Privilege for the Elite
Voting is a right, not a privilege. But to push the voting rights theft of the "SAVE Act" Trump compares voting to privileges like driving, boarding a flight, buying beer and even government benefits.
Republicans have been trying to limit who can vote for decades, while somehow identifying as the “freedom” party. The SAVE Act is no different.
Professional liar, dog murderer and Trump Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for her mishandling of the Department of Homeland Security, so she went to Arizona to push Trump’s “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” (SAVE Act) in an attempt to justify why they want people to need an ID like a passport to vote.
Billionaire Propaganda
This bill is some real billionaire bubble propaganda. In the last general election, 153 million Americans voted, but an estimated 146 million Americans don’t have a valid passport.
Republicans casually compare their idea of voter ID to needing ID to get government benefits, drive, board a flight, open a bank account, rent a hotel room — all things that are privileges, not rights.
Voting is central to a representative democracy, renting a hotel room is not.
Republicans are trying to take away the right to vote and turn it into a privilege for the elite.
A sign behind Kristi Noem:
CAP explained that the SAVE Act would require “documentary proof of citizenship in person. For the vast majority of Americans, this would be a passport or birth certificate.”
They note that government issued driver’s licenses aren’t going to cut it, and neither will REAL IDs or military or tribal IDs.
“The legislation would invert the responsibility to verify a person’s eligibility and citizenship status from election officials and the government onto every single American citizen, making citizens convince the government that they’re eligible to exercise their right to vote.”
It would change how we register to vote, making it impossible to do mail in registration applications. This easily missed detail takes aim at people who do not have a car, can’t drive due to a disability or other health issue, work at a job that won’t give them time off during the day to go in person to register to vote, and so much more.
The elitism of this part of their plan is repugnant, especially as they actively cover up the names of elites in the Epstein files.
Imagine living in a rural area with no access to a car. Imagine taking the bus to work every day, and needing four transfers to get to the government office you need to get to in person in order to submit to this desperate attempt to fundamentally and radically steal voting rights from millions of Americans.
Republicans Attack Women’s Rights
And of course, the bill passed by House Republicans and a single Democrat 218-213 on Wednesday takes aim at women’s right to vote, since the SAVE Act requires a birth certificate to prove citizenship and 84% of women change their last name when they marry, which CAP estimates to mean as many as 69 million women don’t have a birth certificate with their legal name on it. “The SAVE Act makes no mention of being able to show a marriage certificate or change-of-name documentation.”
“I support the SAVE America Act because I believe in the fundamental principle: American citizens should decide American elections,” Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas posted on X, even though there is no evidence that people who aren’t citizens have been voting in our elections in any numbers that could impact the outcome.
They’ve Already Tried This And It Immediately Disenfranchised Tens of Thousands of American Citizens in ONE County Alone
