PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.
It certainly seems like Phillips is advocating mass disenfranchisement to me. Sure, let's disenfranchise the voting rights of the least wealthy, and those who live in urban centers where property values are at a premium and larger numbers of people rent rather than own. Gosh, I can't imagine a single reason why a Republican would want to take the right to vote away from primarily poorer people and urban city dwellers other than you know, they tend to vote Democratic.
By Phillips's logic, let's restrict the vote only to those making $1 million or more a year. Don't they have more of a "vested interest" in America than the rest of us, quite literally?
This kind of thing is so transparent that it should be criminal (indeed, such voter "tests" are no longer legal) but that's the kind of "democracy" the Tea Party believes in...one strictly limited to the "right" people.
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And remember, "right" rhymes with "white", as it was before and should be now!
*ahem*
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