Voting Rights ...and those who shouldn't use them. Also, an apology.

Blaise, I am sorry for being mad at you. I didn't think it was funny, but I understand that it was meant to be humorous and not at all what your group actually thought.

I don't know the statistics of those who vote that are illegal immigrants. I don't know a lot of statistics about much of anything. I do know that making illegal immigrants have an easier time of becoming citizens would probably decrease the amount of money spent on this issue, and, with the nation's debt at an all time high and with a debt ceiling looming, I feel like that should be a priority.

So we allow people to become citizens. They can then vote. Citizens should be able to vote. 

Here's the thing. States legally lose their congressional voice if they make laws that don't allow their citizens to vote. Or they would, if loopholes didn't exist. They lose their voice specifically:

"When the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime." 

Which was later ammended to include all citizens eighteen years and above.

The point is, any law made that discludes citizens from voting is unconstitutional. This is why I am passionately against such laws that are in existence, such as voter ID laws. I support the Constitution; inherently, I support the right to change it if it doesn't work. 

This cyclical reasoning--that we support it until we don't like it, in which case we change it, but at all times we uphold it--leads me to my next thought.

I don't want uninformed people to be voting. Period, end of story. This just perpetuates what chaos we have now--we are about to default on loans to other countries due to a debt ceiling that we are about to reach but can't agree to vote about, which would cause global economic challenges. And these are the people we elected. 

I have this problem where I understand my ideals; I know exactly what I think should happen with taxing. I know that I support a less involved government, and I know that economically, many of my views put me on the fast track for being a Republican.

Which, coming from a person with social views as liberal as my own, is a conundrum. 

I DON'T LIKE ANY OF THE PEOPLE I CAN VOTE FOR. 

I don't feel represented in Congress, and because of this, I don't like voting (I say with my year's worth of experience of being a voter).

In the end, what I want is a government that isn't bipartisan. I want options, and my country doesn't give them to me. So there's that.