Conservative Columnist Say Registering The Poor To Vote Is ‘Like Handing Burglary Tools To Criminals’
Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum. Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/irvines/5733449345/sizes/l/in/photostream/
A conservative columnist is equating the poor to criminals, and he isn’t being shy about it either. Matthew Vadum, the author of a book published by World Net Daily says registering the poor to vote is “un-American” and “like handing out burglary tools to criminals.”
In a column for the American Thinker, Vadum states,
“It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote. Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn’t about helping the poor,” Vadum writes. “It’s about helping the poor to help themselves to others’ money. It’s about raw so-called social justice. It’s about moving America ever farther away from the small-government ideals of the Founding Fathers.”
So the slew of voter suppression laws being passed in GOP controlled states across the country isn’t really based on the fear of voter fraud as Republicans would have us all believe. It’s about stripping the right to vote away from the poor. And Mr. Vadum just came right out and unashamedly admitted it. The right wing and the wealthy are waging war against the middle class and the poor. If we do nothing to put an end to this right wing crime against humanity, there will come a day when all rights for the American people cease to exist.
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Author: Stephen D. Foster Jr.
6:25 am
The first civil war was the North against the South.
The second civil war will be the 1 % rich against the 99 other % of the US population.
It is only a matter of time. Just wait and see.
4:13 pm
I’m thinking of organizing to get as many poor people in my area registered to vote.
12:32 pm
I have no bitterness towards you or to the people who think like you do. That is because I know the Lord is with us and will provide for our every need, and when the time comes we will live by the gospel of Acts 4:32-35 and no one will ever be in need that comes to the Lord for help, the Lord is our salvation. Woe to you that live in darkness, as Paul said about you in Ephesians 4:18-19, you shy farther away from the Lord, oh what misery that must be. But for the rest of us we shall live in Gods Grace remembering what Paul wrote in Ephesians chapter 4 and 5:1-21. Peace be with you brothers & sisters.
6:10 am
Bloody religious zealot fuckwads, will be the death of intelligent life on this planet. Anyone with even an iota of a brain cell knows that there is no ‘God’, it is just a euphemism for ignorant people to fall back on when the going gets tough. Don’t they realise that it the ‘followers’ of their religions that make it tough, ie, republicans, etc..
12:28 pm
Yeah, what Mark said – and then some.
8:21 am
F WND!
12:57 pm
Couldn’t have said it better, dude!!!!
1:53 am
The problem here is not ignorance, it is the rationalized use of ideology to demonize dehumanize and/or criminalize people around him. The ignorance, pathetic as it may be is in his thinking that he is making a moral or socially justifiable statement.
12:20 am
This ugly freak ought to know about stealing. They steal elections,our freedoms and our tax money.
11:43 pm
I’m sorry last I checked; we the American people had the right to elect our leaders despite our class. I think it really is time for a revolution. It’s time we became wolves not sheep and btw wolves always hunt in packs.
9:32 pm
This POS is just an example of those whom Christ spoke of when He said that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven.
3:32 am
Amen! Amazing how the Christian Right Republicans so bligthly go against the words of Jesus Christ!
8:59 pm
Assuming the worst in people is an ugly human trait that many on the right are really good at. The audacity on display by this guy to presume that – in a negative context – he knows why there are poor people in this country, that they are nothing but freeloaders. Of course he (and society as a whole) expects many of the low-paying, labor intensive jobs to be done in order for society to work. It’s a fantasy that there is a good paying job for every American if they work hard enough.
8:52 pm
The criminals are the rich elite who believe everyone is poor because they are lazy. The real criminals are the rich who steal from the poor in every way they can. Why these as*hole rich bastard think that anyone who isn’t rich is stealing from them is beyond me. Maybe all the poor and people who make less than 100 grand a year should all go on strike for about a month. Watch the country come to halt because no work would get done anywhere. The rich elite certainly are not going to do the dirty work that needs to be done everyday but does not pay well. Who the hell do these elitists think they are.Most of the unemployed that can’t find jobs are people who have good skills but can’t be hired because the people doing the hiring want you to work for little money and fewer benefits. Between these stupid elitists and the moral minority conservatives idiots this country has gone to hell in a hand basket and is truly broken, and from where I sit, i do not believe it can be fixed. With idiots like this guy trying to run the country for their own special interests the whole thing will fall apart. The real criminals – the special interst groups, the religious conservative, the banks, and the politicians. Maybe we should put all of them in jail instead of the terrorists. because these folks are the real terrorist criminals.
10:03 am
Well said, my friend.
6:37 pm
“the meek shall inherit the Earth”
10:44 pm
The republicans have a different translation of that verse, “the meek shall inherit the dirt”.
6:11 pm
Vadum’s is a shockingly stupid and arrogant comment. American soldiers have been fighting and dying in the Middle East for a decade for what even our lame-brained former Republican president called an effort to establish democracy in the region. Does Vadum think democracy means that only fat guys with ties and ugly sneers get to vote? This fool represent what all too many conservatives, especially rich ones, feel in their bones, all in the name of being true Americans. That’s the big lie. You people are oligarchs and selfish creeps.
5:21 pm
“Least productive segments of the population”?
And they say it can’t happen here…
5:10 pm
More sad, judgemental hate talk from the have’s without respect or consideration for the working people of this country.
4:33 pm
So they accuse us of wanting death panels just because we want everyone to be able to see a doctor, yet they are what, advocating government voter panels to decide who they will disenfranchise?
3:18 pm
Cracker, Pond Scum, Unfit Oxygen Consuming Blowhole, Award Winning.
Which one doesn’t fit his character? I would have to say #4.
He probably paid for those rewards, even within his little group of so called elitists he is probably scoffed at as the whinny little troll that he is.
Where does he think he would be without the poor hard working Americans that he so easily denounces as criminal and unworthy? He definitely wouldn’t be wearing his little clown suits and getting awards, he might even have to dirty his nails trying to find his next meal.
Guess what rim-job? You just pretty much sealed the fate of your whole class with your arrogant ‘We are better than everyone else and don’t you forget it’ spewing of vile dribble. What do you think? That you and your kind are the equivalent of British royalty? What a joke…
I’ve wasted enough of my non-valuable time on you. You should be grateful that anyone took the time to comment on your spiteful rhetoric.
I would say “See you in Hell” but, I’m already here and yous is yet to come…Sweet Dreams
9:37 pm
Very well said. That goes for Eric Cantor, Boehner, McConnel, and all the other coward Republicans that can’t help but bow down to the rediculously un-educated Tea Party. They don’t even understand that they are hurting themselves, as many Tea Party members are poor redneck’s who will end up dependant on Medicare and Social Security some day, they just aren’t smart enough to figure it out yet. As for coddeling the Rich, it is time to stop. I bet if some of these reporter’s actually asked some of the Rich people they are interviewing, (Actor’s Actress’s, Pro Athletes, etc…) they would happily pay a little more in taxes, rather than see us lose the Big 3. I just don’t get why these political elitists don’t get it? If they are so smart why can’t they figure out the the gas station clerk, or the store clerk, or janitor, etc…, etc…. are only making minimum wage or a little more, and many many Americans are working 2 and 3 jobs to support their families. Someone needs to wake these idiots up before it’s too late. We must vote Dem in 2012, or we are in for a miserable time.
2:25 pm
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.
1:51 pm
I’m glad to see the Heritage Foundation (see logo in background of photo) is maintaining its high intellectual standard for policy analysts.
1:42 pm
How does something like this get into American THINKER? This comes from the glands, not from the brain.
1:18 pm
I actually hope that there are more outspoken nuts like this one. This is getting a lot of attention and hopefully if there are a slew of other idiots out there everyone will remember why we got to the point we are at. Not with 2 years of Obama! More like 8 years of the
darkest administration in several years. Oh yah, that was a Republican Administration by the way. Republicanism at its best: long live the rich, the hell with the rest.
12:48 pm
I hope SOMEBODY out there is listening/reading/paying the fuck ATTENTION! This is precisely how the vast majority of wealthy “Americans” see the middle class and “underclasses” – peasants with no rights. They are angry that the poor DARE to insist on a living wage, some form of social network to support them in times of medical and/or economic emergency. These are sociopathic valueless parasites who play with the lives of real people for power and profit – take away a person’s job and then bitch when they dare to try to collect unemployment benefits.
HEY VADUMB! Be careful what you ask for. You have a LOT MORE to lose than the guy with $5 in his pocket to feed his family for a week. If you continue to provoke a full-blown civil war, who will win? The poor can’t get much poorer – but you and your self-styled aristocracy may watch all you cherish wash away in the class war you created.
I hear a lot of anger in conversations on the street from your theft of the nation’s wealth, reputation and honor. (And this is in a fairly staunch old-school Republican area) They blame YOU and your corporate owners, not Obama (except the hard-core GOP trolls, of course, but then any President who DARES to be Black AND have a funny-sounding name deserves all he gets, right?) Even though he gives you everything you want, you still need a lesson in humility. And the voters will give it to you – unless of course, you buy the people that count the votes, a very real possibility, unfortunately. Because if there is even a hint that this has occurred anywhere in the nation there will be no stopping the shitstorm that must inexorably follow. This is one election that it would be VERY prudent to play fair, instead of trying to find a new gimmick, legal or not, to “win” regardless of cost to the nation or the planet.
Meanwhile rant on, it will be our turn very soon – one way or the other.
2:04 pm
So why are you, or anyone for that matter, addressing so much of your vitriol towards Vandum? He is obviously not reading any of it. It’s wasted energy, friend. Take that force and focus it where it can do good. Any good. That shit will just eat you alive. “Be generous. Be grateful. Confess when you’re not.”–Rumi.
Spread the word.
12:47 pm
Seems to me his attitude would have excluded people like Paul Ryan and many other NOW rich folks back in the day before they “pulled themselves up by their boot straps.” What a load he is…
12:37 pm
And where’d this fool’s money come from? Inherited it from the fruits of colonization, no doubt. It’s so inconvenient when they can just vote for you to not shoot them and take their wealth.
12:37 pm
Whoa, that guy has a giant head.
12:31 pm
I couldn’t agree more with S Haute, although he has the Stalinist look of putting all of us less fortunate in the Gulag to work for the corporations for free….
12:27 pm
This guy is a real asshole, I have voted in every election since 1980 when I was first registered to vote and had to sign up for the draft
12:27 pm
Hah! Look at this bloke…anyone else but me think he’s just a pointy hat away from an S.S. uniform?? Cripe…he’s Central Casting’s perfect Nazi…and he thinks like one, too!
12:16 pm
omg: Talk about a person who is for the rich one more republican… The Voters will get rid of the republicans in office and promise not to put another one in… So i assume the poor should not be allowed to vote… I wish that u become that poor and perhaps walk a mile in their shoes… You complete idiot… No regard to human life… Hey seniors u have paid, and u have paid more then your share it’s time to get these rush limbaughs out of office, and remember these words from the devil himself…