Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners
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Every week, the Tea Party Nation hosts a weekly radio program, calling itself a “home for conservatives.” Two weeks ago, Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips hosted the program and discussed changes that he felt should be made to voting rights in the United States. He explained that the founders of the country originally put “certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote.” He continued, “One of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners”:
PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.
Listen to it:
Phillips is advocating a policy of voter disenfranchisement that has its roots in the 18th century. When the United States was first founded, ownership of property was one of the requirements to vote in most elections. Many of these restrictions were phased out by the 1820s and replaced with requirements that the voter pays taxes. By 1850, these requirements, too, were phased out. Nashville Scene blogger Betsy Phillips calls the Tea Party Nation president’s idea a “frivolous proposal designed to stoke intergenerational antagonism — as if the people who are older and can afford a home are somehow better citizens than the 18-year-olds who are going off to war to die for our country.”
Unfortunately, numerous major conservatives have advocated for rolling back the voting rights of Americans. Supreme Court justice Anthony Scalia, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), and Sen.-elect Mike Lee (R-UT) have all advocated for repealing the 17th Amendment, which would end direct election of U.S. Senators and return Senate elections to the purview of state legislatures. (H/T: Tea Party Nationalism)
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OK I see this is from November 30th, 2010, and I am belated in reading and sharing it...
But am wondering where anyone comes up with such ideas?
What say you?
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rotflmao............as I walk out the door.............nonsense
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How is Casey this morning hon? how are you?
There is no Tea Party, they are republicans.
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ReplyDeleteI think they have really damaged themselves with this bit......hopefully Republicans will recoil......not wanting to be one of the villiage idiots.
ReplyDeleteWhat has Sarah, wicked witch of the north had ro say about it?
ReplyDeleteI know within myself I should not comment of another countries politics, ( Mugabe's power excluded ) however as it seems to run in the genes of my family :D
ReplyDeleteHow can one expect to rise in status if there is a restriction on Voting and then only for Property Owners
This rubbish what do they want to do, set democracy, meaning ( "people" & "power") back prior to BC ?
I sometimes think they really want to restrict it to rich, white property owners....it would seriously cut down on voters in certain cities where the majority of residents are renters...NYC being a prime example.
ReplyDeleteHe claims he isn't actually *for* this idea that "makes a lot of sense." I wonder exactly what impression he thought his comments were likely to create.
ReplyDelete18th century? What he's actually suggesting is a return to classical, or Greek, democracy - the litmus-test for being a citizen was property ownership.
ReplyDeleteAgain -- the Teabaggers want to 'take our country back'......
lol and are going to count blacks on the census as 1/3 or 1/2 again ? remove womens right to vote altogether ? How about you have to own property and have 1,000,000 dollars or more ?! bet that gets his backers drooling ! lol hugggs
ReplyDeleteI photographed a family that had me include in the picture a text. Each Day Begins With God.
ReplyDeleteThe mother, now a renter, had me visit again.
Her husband had sold the house and left her penniless.
Her landlord was a rich home owner getting richer.
No text on the wall this time.
The photographs were free.
omg---more insanity!!
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