re: #272 calochortus

Well that’s where the conversation kind of broke down. I couldn’t get him to explain why people who rented a home weren’t affected by the laws passed by elected representatives. I asked if renters with kids in school didn’t quite literally have skin in the game when it came to school board elections, and we wandered off into school-related issues in the conversation.

I presume he owns land, or a home? Because generally the only people who think like that are people who do. But it’s patently ridiculous, and the reason the Founders liked that idea was that they were trying to set up a utopia for people like themselves - white male landowners.

The people who want this generally want to limit the franchise to those who, they believe, think like they do, and then they rationalize their way around the obvious inequity.