"thunder" wrote in message

Geez guy, if you don't like democracy, move. Why shouldn't those
"disinterested, uninformed, and unproductive segments" have the right to
vote?

I never said they shouldn't.

Perhaps, by taking the effort to register, they would
become less disinterested, more informed, and more productive.

Doubtful. If they were interested, they would already be participants.
This is just the modern day version of the Dem machines of the 1930s,
wherein ward hacks would ride around on election day and gather up all the
bums they could find, slip each one a finn, drive him to the polls, and tell
him "Vote for Curley".


You may not
like it, but it is a fundamental concept to democracy, all votes *should*
count.

I don't dislike it at all, and again, I never said these votes shouldn't
count. I merely point out that the Dems don't give 2 ****es about these
folks until they need 20 or 30,000 votes some year, then they ramrod a huge
voter drive and promptly drop things after the election. Dems want to own
issues, not resolve them.