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John Fund is a tool, who used to write for the WSJ and now writes for the National Review, a promotion of sorts in conservative circles. He has been an advocate for voter suppression in the name of fraud suppression, save for the fact that there is very little voter fraud by voters, and much more of it by Republican secretaries of state and legislatures. In his latest salvo of stupidity, he writes that voting shouldnt be convenient because fast food is convenient and fast food is unhealthy--I kid you not. Thanks to Jonathan Chait of NY Magazine for destroying Funds stupidity and disingenuous argument thusly: Fund argues that voting shouldn’t be convenient because fast food is convenient and fast food can be unhealthy: [Funds words:] There’s no doubt that many people in our increasingly mobile and hectic society want voting to be as easy and convenient as buying fast food. But too much of anything can be bad — just ask someone who has gorged on drive-thru burgers and fries. To which Chait responds: One really does not know what to say here. Yes, people want voting and fast food to be easy and convenient. They want this for everything. People also like access to potable water to be easy and convenient. Perhaps this is an actual principle for Fund, who may have once experienced an episode of hamburger-gorging so humiliating, it left him with the misplaced but genuine belief that society must deliberately make convenient tasks more onerous, and he will soon propose that we eliminate indoor plumbing and go back to hauling water from the well with jugs. Alternatively, he merely favors government regulations that impose difficulty and inconvenience upon the public in this one way that happens to benefit the Republican Party. According to the Daily Beast, Christie and Paul want to reassure voters “who view the Republican Party through the lens of its anti-civil-rights past.” Actually, the Republican Party’s past record on civil rights is not so bad. It’s the present that is the problem. Democrats may be bad, but Republicans are truly evil in the service of their overlords.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 06:06:06 +0000

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