Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Tea Party Nation President Says It ‘Makes A Lot Of Sense’ To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners

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.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/30/tea-party-voting-property/

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. So screw you, renters! (sheesh!) Does he still think that African Americans are property?

[NOLALady]

4. He probably believes

Blacks, Browns as well as non-rich Whites are property.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

12. escaped property perhaps

:sarcasm:

[Kennah]

36. Yes

I'm waiting for the Tea Party to discover the glorious merits of apartheid. :sarcasm:

[fascisthunter]

2. we always knew this was what conservatives wanted

hell, I hear some of them admit it all out loud. These people deserve to live in a totalitarian state as slaves, just leave the rest of us out of it.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. That is what HOAs are for

For other matters we all get to vote, thank you very much.

[underpants]

5. So we are going back to the "landed gentry"?

I am guessing this is based on the naive and misguided "originalist" nonsense.

[toppertwot]

24. LANDED GENTRY?

Well, maybe they should make it to where only people with one million dollars worth of real estate can vote. That way, they keep out the unwashed multitudes.

[PeaceNikki]

6. lolz. And them wimminz votes don count, neither.

[cyr330]

7. So, I live in San Francisco where

70% of the population rents, as it costs AT LEAST $500,000 for a one-bedroom condo. So we're all going to be disenfranchised by these sorry fuckers? I'm NOT surprised about what they want to do; I really expected it!

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

8. We own 2 properties.

Does that mean we get to vote twice? :eyes:

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

16. i would think so for at least non-common districts

so property in 2 states would men you would have four senators and two congressmen but only one presidental vote

[tpsbmam]

9. Only if we get to reinstitute poll literacy tests....

that way 97% of tea partiers won't be able to fucking vote.

Unbelievable.

[Canuckistanian]

43. ... with a heavy emphasis on spelling

That ought to weed out the riff-raff.

[earthside]

10. I think this is a great idea!

Let the people with property pay all the taxes!

Because, of course, the whole point of the original Boston Tea Party was that there should be 'no taxation without representation'.

If I don't get to vote because I don't own any property, then I shouldn't be taxed for anything either.

If I don't own property and don't have any representation in the local, state and federal legislatures, then I shouldn't have to pay sales taxes, property taxes, income taxes, etc.

And, this ought to be extended even farther -- only those who own property and who have a "vested stake" should be trusted enough to actually go fight in the wars that they have to pay for!

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Brilliant corollaries...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. that means that 99.8% of his party shouldn't vote...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. gotta love them Hamiltonian's

[Duer 157099]

14. Eh. Wouldn't change much. The banks would be the only voters.

Isn't that sort of how it is now anyway?

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. True

[BrklynLiberal]

17. What's next...no women can vote? only white men can vote? and of course...

eliminate direct election of Senators.

Wow...18th Century..here we come..............

What a bunch of f**king maroons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[tedbear]

48. Morons??

The scary part is that the "morons" got some of their people elected!!! Seriously, if we cannot light a fire under most of the poor and progressives we might lose our right to vote. Come on girls, we could become property again and lose the property we now own!

[unkachuck]

50. Welcome tedbear to DU!

"...we could become property again and lose the property we now own!"

....I imagine the right-wing conservative-mind must boggle at the endless possibilities....

[elehhhhna]

19. He means the banks and rich foreigners.

[NorthCarolina]

20. The republicans better hope that trailer homes count as property then. nt

[WizardLeft62]

21. That's the Republicans For Ya

You people aren't surprised the privileged class of this G.O.P. actually thinks this stuff?

It's just that the GOP Crazies are expressing what the country club Republicans only say in private and not dare say in public.

[demigoddess]

22. I knew it was only a matter of time before they start this

first they came for the non property owners, then they came for the black men, then they came for the women. Before they rest it will be a white man only country.

[Raschel]

40. They think the Black men ARE the non-property owners. They think they're all on welfare.

They think it'll help them to "take back THEIR country".

As if they're Native Americans.....

[robinlynne]

23. holy shit. unbelievable. They live in a different universe, completely.

[kestrel91316]

25. I own a business and have employees but do not own real estate.

Do I get to vote??

[felix_numinous]

26. His elitism is showing,

he just threw a lot of people under the teabagger express!

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

27. lets do it one better. You have to make more than $250,000

to get to vote, there's your vested interest.

[struggle4progress]

28. The Ownership Society! I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now

[earcandle]

29. So glad we have progressed out of those dank times.

[ismnotwasm]

30. Idiot

White propertied male landowners. I double dare the asswipe to go there.


Which reminds me of a joke a friend of mine posted on another site


Did you know that:
The words "race car" spelled backwards still spells "race car"?

"Eat" is the only word that, if you take the first letter and move it to the
last, spells its past tense, "ate

And if you rearrange the letters in "so-called Tea Party Republicans," and add
just a few more letters, it spells: "Shut the fuck up, you freeloading,
progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, violent, hypocritical
douche bags, and deal with the fact that our president is black and that you
nearly wrecked the country under Bush."

[pattmarty]

31. These fucking people ought to be sterlized so they don't reproduce...........

..............He also forgot women and blacks couldn't vote either, fucking morons.

[Fire1]

44. Ditto! n/t

[savalez]

32. What an ass.

[Blue_Tires]

33. more brain dead wisdom from the self-styled freedom-loving patriots

Of course, following his logic, the next congress will be nothing but Chinese, Russians, Indians and Saudis...

[geckosfeet]

34. what an a$$hat - pure a$$hattery.

Why doesn't he get it up and just say you can only vote if you are rich and can make political donations? That what he fucking means.

[muntrv]

35. Judson loves taxation without representation.

[Kennah]

37. Fine, no problem

However, Mr. Phillips, if a multi-racial slave revolt strings up your fucking ass, I don't wanna hear any crying about it.

[Tesha]

38. "Service guarantees citizenship"

[morningglory]

39. So would the female partner of a property owner get to vote? Just askin'...n t

[Betsy Ross]

41. So only banks can vote?

OK, there are a few folks that actually own their property. But it would be the ultimate corporate takeover.

[nyy1998]

42. Yeah, cause the 1850s was a swell time for the US

[sam sarrha]

45. when will they wear their armbands outside their shirts.. ??

[somone]

46. Good luck with that, asshole

[McCamy Taylor]

47. OMG! Bet this one will not see much MSM coverage.

[Zephie]

49. White male land owners is what they really mean

Everyone who doesn't match that description... Well, enjoy dying in the gutter or being a prostitute.

[guitar man]

51. I have a travel trailer

I keep it in a rv park close to my job since my home is about 100 miles from my job, that way I don't have to commute every day. My neighbor at the park is a certified teabagger, nice enough guy but just way off the cliff politically.

I printed this article out at the office today and gave it to him when I saw him earlier this evening. I just saw him a few minutes ago and he said "you don't suppose a beat up '77 Winnebago makes me a vote worthy property owner do you?"

I answered him "what do you think?"

he says <paraphrased>
"I think I'm out, if this is how they look at the rank and file, I'm out. After my wife died I sold our little old house and started travelling, couldn't stand to be there anymore, so what does that make me, worthless? Just because I don't own a house anymore? Fuck 'em, if that's what this so called movement is going to be about, I'm out. "

I hope more of them get it, I really do. This whole farce never had a damn thing to do with the common folks, just another republican ploy to get people to vote against their own interests :grr:

[daleo]

52. They have gone from Tea Party to King George III

Royalty thought only landed gentry deserved any say in government too.

[Gman]

53. Well then, why not just make it property owners. Make it property owners and slave owners

Would they be happy then?

[COLGATE4]

54. What's next - proposing that African Americans and Latinos count

as 3/5 of a Caucasian for voting purposes?

[applegrove]

55. Man they hate african americans and latinos. It is all about their white priviledge.

[Kievan Rus]

56. The Teabaggers have never gotten over the Enlightenment...

let alone the Sixties, the New Deal or the Progressive Age.

[WizardLeft62]

57. And...

The Sexual Revolution

Gay Liberaton Movement

Military Loss in Vietnam

[glinda]

58. Oh for pete's sake. What a hostile nincompoop.

[Gemini Cat]

59. I suspect a lot of tea baggers believe this would not

apply to them, but to those "others." "Others" meaning you and I.
What the silly dears don't understand is... they too are considered the "others" by the chief tea bag. This needs to be pointed out (in whatever way they can understand) every time to the supporters of the tea bagging party.

[BrklynLiberal]

61. The repukes have perfected the art of getting the lemmings to vote against their own best interests.

http://markmaynard.com/?p=7501

<snip>

The best part of the article is the contribution by Thomas Frank, the author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Here’s a highlight:

….Right-wing politics has become a vehicle for channelling this popular anger against intellectual snobs. The result is that many of America’s poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest.

Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different:

“You vote to strike a blow against elitism and you receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our life times, workers have been stripped of power, and CEOs are rewarded in a manner that is beyond imagining… It’s like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy.”

As Mr Frank sees it, authenticity has replaced economics as the driving force of modern politics. The authentic politicians are the ones who sound like they are speaking from the gut, not the cerebral cortex. Of course, they might be faking it, but it is no joke to say that in contemporary politics, if you can fake sincerity, you have got it made.

And here, according to the author of the article, is the big takeaway message from all of this… “If people vote against their own interests, it is not because they do not understand what is in their interest or have not yet had it properly explained to them. They do it because they resent having their interests decided for them by politicians who think they know best. There is nothing voters hate more than having things explained to them as though they were idiots. As the saying goes, in politics, when you are explaining, you are losing. And that makes anything as complex or as messy as healthcare reform a very hard sell.”

<snip>

[myrna minx]

60. K&R n/t

[Evasporque]

62. When people are property then they can't vote...nt

[sarcasmo]

63. Crazy lunatics.