re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🎃

All rhetorical questions.

But the entire discussion of Voter ID could be solved by a few simple and relatively inexpensive measures. Ones that we will never adopt for the reasons you listed.

And in Germany, you need to show your registered address to enroll your kids in school, apply for social services, open a bank account, register a car, apply for a driver’s license, etc., making it a lot harder for undocumented aliens to get established.

The relative ease with which undocumented workers can get established in America once they have safely made it past the border is one of the things that makes this country so attractive.

But we are going to spend our time initiating half-measures that just kick the can down the road without solving the root issues and spin down a sinkhole of rhetoric and counter-rhetoric.

PS: I just got a friendly reminder from the local authorities that my passport is about to expire and I need a valid one to remain a resident in Germany. I would have overlooked that entirely until I tried to board an airplane or cross a non-EU border at some point…