I don't want everybody to vote!

The Democrats have been pushing for years to make it easier to register and vote. Anybody listening should have had the "voter fraud" light turn red. Now, surprise, there is voter fraud in Wisconsin and Washington state.

The whole tactic of using endless manual recounts to turn up additional votes has emerged as the go-to approach for losers because it's so easy to gin up self-righteous indignation over "Every vote should count!" although the subtext is "even if we have to allow a bunch of fraudulent votes."

Pure democracy is easily manipulated by demagogues, who rely on sophistry and mob psychology. That's why our founders distrusted straight democracy and designed the Electoral College and the Senate to serve as moderators to the volatility of public opinion. Voting is a duty of citizenship, but not just voting as some labor leader or special interest group tells you to. Labor unions acquired great political clout through their ability to deliver huge blocs of uninformed or single issue votes.

This country is in big trouble because politicians have been allowed to buy votes with public funds, and because the beneficiaries of such largesse don't have the moral fiber to put the good of the nation ahead of their own interests.