Why do fundamentalist religions speak of both determinism and free will in the same breath?
Example; “God has a plan for you so you must praise Him.”
Does he still have a plan for me if I don’t praise Him or only praise him on Sundays or when I just had an orgasm? Does the plan change? If I choose free will, does it change the determinate status of the plan?
Discuss.
Here’s the deal, conservative nutjobs. If you work soliciting voter registrations, most states have laws in place saying that you have to submit any regsitration that is given to you. If the registrant writes the name “Mickey Mouse” on the form, you can’t just throw it away. These laws prevent voter registration groups from, say, throwing out registrations that are marked “Republican.”
What this means is that ACORN is bound to turn in every registration it collects. They try to flag registrations they believe to be fraudulent, but they can’t catch them all. They do occasionally discover that one of their employees is deliberately forging registrations. Those people who do are fired, and the registrations they submit are scrutinized to flag the bad registrations for government regulators.
In the states that they’ve had problems, we’re talking about, at most, dozens of problematic registrations among the many, many thousands collected. They are NOT engaging in systematic fraud. And any fraud that is taking place will have no effect on actual voting. Registering under a false name, or registering multiple times, doesn’t allow a person to actually vote, unless that person takes the extraordinary step of getting multiple fake IDs. So far, there is not a whiff of a shred of a hint of evidence that anyone has actually done that.
In short, conservatives, just admit it. You don’t want poor people and minorities to vote. You’re afraid that they’ll vote with the party that bothers to pretend that it cares about their interests. It’s a natural fear. You don’t want people who will vote against you to vote. Nobody does! The difference is that your base voters, wealthy white folks, can afford to hire lawyers if somebody tries to disenfranchise them.
So stop picking on ACORN. And if you’re going to slander a non-profit group working to help poor people exercise the only power they have, at least have the guts to admit your real motive.
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