One of the new darlings of The Left, Stacy Abrams, gave the Democrat’s response to President Trump’s State of the Union last night. This rising star on The Left is the same woman who said she “would not oppose” non-citizens voting.
(I challenge any American reading this to try to go vote in another country’s election and demand you should have the right to vote in their election because Reasons and Feelings.)
This has come up before with her unsuccessful bid for Georgia governor.
Margaret Hoover asked Democrat Stacey Abrams if she supports non-citizens voting in local elections.
Abrams responded: " I wouldn’t oppose it." pic.twitter.com/QjshlW5Se5
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) February 6, 2019
Always ask yourself – what is the end game? Municipal elections now? Then a little more? Then a little more? Until citizenship means nothing.
This is what The Left wants. An open borders free-for-all.
This article explains her comments from last fall.
A Blue Wave of ‘Undocumented’ Voters?
…when Abrams was taped giving a speech last week during a joint appearance with Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren in Jonesboro.
In an expansive prediction of how Democrats would sweep the country with a “blue wave,” Abrams said the following:
“The thing of it is, is that blue waves aren’t blue. . . . The blue wave is African-American. It’s white, it’s Latino, it’s Asian, Pacific Islander. It is disabled. It is differently abled. It is LGBTQ. It is law enforcement. It is veterans. It is made up of those who have been told they are not worthy of being here. It is comprised of those who are documented and undocumented. It is comprised of those who have been told they’re successful and those who have been left behind.”
Perhaps Abrams was just on automatic pilot, signaling her loyalty to identity politics and expressing solidarity with every possible segment of the electorate. There is nothing unusual about Democrats’ vowing to protect the “undocumented” (an inaccurate euphemism for illegal immigrants when some states give them driver’s licenses). But saying that a blue wave of Democrats will include “documented” and “undocumented” voters, as if those two categories were just two different ethnic groups with equal rights to the ballot, was astounding.
Abrams later said that she didn’t mean for “anyone who is not legally allowed to vote in the state of Georgia to be allowed to vote.” But read literally, her statement in fact implied that the distinction between “documented” and “undocumented” is meaningless when it comes to turning out the Democratic base.
I wonder why she didn’t bring this up in her list of talking points response last night?
Non-citizens already work as campaign volunteers, and perhaps as paid staff.
The thing Abrams said last night that I choked on most was when she said Democrats want to make health care affordable. Didn’t they take care of that in 2010, with the Affordable Care Act??!?
I tried to watch her, but it became apparent it was just a list of talking points and not an actual response to what President Trump said. I confess that I kind of zoned out and got distracted by my paperwork.
I don’t know about you, but my health insurance has become less and less affordable ever since they passed the Affordable Care Act.
Our health insurance is much less affordable now; I like working with numbers, but I’ve avoided figuring out just how much it has gone up, because I’m pretty sure it is going to make me blow a gasket.
A while back I figured, based on some numbers from the newspaper, that for every person that was really helped by the ACA, there were two people just paying the penalty and going without health insurance, and at least five people more who wanted to see it be nuked from orbit.
I run the numbers every year to see if I can come up with a better option. We have a grandfathered plan (pre-Obamacare) and it’s a good HSA plan (relatively speaking). That said, it’s crushing us as it goes up substantially every year.
What was really depressing was when I was looking at the ACA marketplace a couple of years ago and I realized that the plan we have is probably what most people are hoping to get when the mess is fixed at some point.
That was really depressing.