I was watching a show about the efforts to suppress voting in this country, and it has my blood boiling.  So, I got to thinking, okay, how do we satisfy this push for voter I.D.?  Which, incidentally is a “solution in search of a problem”.  There is simply no measurable in-person voter fraud in this country.  Period.  You can find massive studies on this at The Brennan Center for Justice website.

But okay, let’s say we decide we have to solve this non-existent problem.  The solution is obvious.  A National I.D. card.  Getting hives?  Particularly anybody on the Right who loves to throw around “Don’t Tread on Me!”, and talk about how much the love freedom right up until it’s time for me to have the freedom to make decisions about my vagina, but that’s a topic for another day.

So here’s what we do — we require every citizen of the United States no matter their age or race or gender to register with the government, and be issued an identification card that they must carry with them at all times under penalty of prosecution.

That kind of regimentation has always been anathema to Americans.  We pick up stakes and move when ever we want.  Don’t like living in Ohio and want to try California?  Get in your car.  Hop a bus or a plane or a train and leave.  That sense of limitless opportunity to change jobs, location, etc. has been a hallmark of the American spirit.

And government issued papers have always been viewed with suspicion by the citizens of this country.  I don’t want to be stopped at a routine traffic stop and asked “Papers, please.”  I doubt many other people do either.

But if there are going to continue to be these attempts to limit people’s right to vote then fine, you guys want I.D.?  I say let’s go all the way.  Feeling trod upon yet?