CITIZENSHIP SHOULD HAVE VALUE
But US Citizenship is Being Devalued
One major ad campaign got a lot of traction by talking about “the value of membership.” I ran into a challenge when I was the VP of an international IT organization where the board determined that most of the benefits of a paid membership should be available to anyone. “How do you sell a membership where the only remaining value is a small discount on an annual conference many couldn’t afford to attend?” I said. The same thing is happening with the value of being an American citizen.
The Value of Citizenship
From the number in line to legally come into our country to the millions of illegals who’ve cross our borders in the Biden/Harris regime, we know that people long to become US citizens. You have the right to vote, something many countries don’t respect. You have the Bill of Rights, mostly protecting you from your government. You can participate in Social Security and Medicare, Obamacare (if you wish). Almost all countries welcome our passport.
You’re more likely to get employed AND earn higher wages. You can own a home, get education without cost, access many government-funded resources and more. The only things we formerly required were: a. do it legally b. learn English and c. recognize the values and culture here without necessarily losing your own identity. Not a big ask.
But I’ve heard a number of people suggest that renouncing US citizenship is a good idea, as we are treating illegals better than our own citizens and even than those here as legal migrants.
Voting Matters
I do find myself feeling that people who don’t speak English and have only a nominal education shouldn’t vote, but I wouldn’t push for it. I’m just tired of people who think elections are some TV reality show like Survivor, opting for the best-looking one, or the minority one or the female one, without regard for their character, their track record and their abilities.
However, voting is a core right only for citizens. To ensure only citizens vote, voter ID is critical. How do you know someone has the right to vote? Many groups, including ACORN, regularly register people without proof of ID, so the fact that someone has a ballot is meaningless. ID is required. You can’t even board a plane without ID.
The Left likes to pretend it is too hard to get an ID. Once again, they show their racist roots making the assumption that Black people (and presumably other minorities) cannot readily get an ID. I have yet to meet any minority that can’t manage this and I respect other people too much to believe that this hurdle is insurmountable for any of them. And as a representative for the Council on Aging, I know for a fact that older or handicapped people can get help to get an ID.
Newsom Will Screw Up Again
Huntington Beach, a redder city in California, passed a law requiring voters to show ID, a reasonable ask that was once really the law of the land. Newsom is about to sign #SB 1174 to invalidate all voter ID laws. Interestingly, all people must provide proof of identity when they register to vote in California. Falsifying voter registration information is a felony punishable by up to three years in prison. And yet, I know for a fact because I’ve seen it that many people register to vote illegally. I haven’t heard of any enforcement.
How do you know someone is a legal citizen of the United States if you can’t demand ID? In fact, how do you know that someone isn’t voting for multiple people whose ballots they have stolen or just appropriated from unwitting family members? My husband’s ballot was stolen for the election in 2022. Dinesh D’Souza’s movie showed this kind of fraud in action.
I worked the polls and saw people who might have been illegals, although I couldn’t know. I did see people come in and present an absentee ballot, get a new ballot and walk out to vote their first ballot. Were they both counted? Who knows? We need voter ID re-established nationwide to protect one of the most important rights of citizenship.
This new law, SB 1174, probably doesn’t change much in CA, except invalidating the new law in Southern Cal. And it was probably a test case for the redder cities in the state. We’ve long had most polling places ignore a proffered ID and certainly not request one. It’s not clear to me that they even do a good job of comparing signatures, which doesn’t matter if the person who registered illegally actually signs their own absentee ballot. But it sets a precedent for other states, like NY, to follow suit, further undermining citizenship. The backers of the law say it increases access and lowers confusion, but really? Again, this is a bigoted stance against adults in America who have shown over and over again their intelligence, ability and stamina.
Newsom has already granted illegals full access to almost every service and to MediCal. Of course many are coming. They get all the benefits of citizenship with almost no cost to them. This undermines all those who are applying legally. And as a first generation American, I resent the h-ll out of that.
Get the Left out of California and every Blue state.
To your point, I have often felt like Americans vote as if they were choosing a homecoming king or queen. I heard an interviewee say he was voting for Harris because she wasn’t Trump. That may be a reason but it’s an ignorant one. So perhaps that person doesn’t care about the impact to himself but what about his family and the rest of his fellow citizens? Considering how the current democratic nominee got where she is, and looking at the push for illegals to vote, it would appear we’re going to implicitly have a monarchy in place before we know it. No more republic. No more freedom.