Revolution 2.0
New Georgia Voting Law: Voting Rights, Voting Responsibilities (EP.318)
- Autor: Vários
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- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:09:03
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Introduction If your emphasis is on voting rights, to the virtual exclusion of any attendant responsibilities, then you would likely agree that the new Georgia voting law represents an unfair restriction of those rights. I am not in that camp. That is the subject of today’s 10 minute episode. Continuing Much of today’s conversation, in the media, on social media and in person, is taken up with rights, e.g., the right to healthcare, the right to housing, etc. Voting rights belong in this growing list. The only rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence are, “…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Those unalienable rights, by definition, have no corresponding responsibilities, save, perhaps, for staying out of jail to maintain one’s liberty. Today’s Key Point: When there are any responsibilities, hurdles to clear, prior to voting, no matter how obvious and neede