re: #252 calochortus

I have a nephew that thinks only landowners should have the vote because they are the only ones with “skin in the game.” He also likes the idea because Jefferson thought you needed to be a landowner to vote. Of course Jefferson thought you should have to own at least 50 acres, and said nothing about skin in the game, just that these would be the people with the time, education and interest to study issues, but that seemed not to make a dent in said nephew’s belief system.

Skin in WHAT game, exactly? It’s like the idea that everyone needs to pay Federal Income Tax, so they have ‘skin in the game’.

Invoking Jefferson and ‘skin in the game’ is funny, considering his views on skin and father children on women he owned because of the color of their skin.