COTTonLINE readers obviously follow politics so you know polling shows the SAVE act now stuck in Congress has wide public support. Most Republicans, over two-thirds of Independents, and half of Democrats - something like two-thirds of all voters - favor requiring ID to vote and limiting voting to US citizens.
And yet Senate Democrats are refusing to vote for something everyone admits is widely popular. If you needed proof that our government is not always responsive to voter demands, you have it here.
That refusal is rich fodder for conspiracy theorists, playing right into their hands. It is the Deep State in action, forced out from behind the bureaucratic 'curtain' behind which it normally operates.
What actually fuels the Democrats' stonewalling of SAVE is the "soft bigotry of low expectations" in action. They distrust the motivation of a large percentage of their voters.
They fear many of their voters will be dissuaded by the minor effort of showing citizenship to register, making voting too much hassle to bother with. Actually their fears are probably baseless as their typical voter is no longer Joe Sixpack, more likely to be someone with blue hair and a B.A. in Non-binary Studies.
