There was a very wise woman who recently attended a Romney fundraiser on Long Island.  She said, and I quote

“I don’t think the common person is getting it…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”

Bingo!

And that’s why we fund organizations like ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Counsel.

We are the good people who bring you shoot first laws and most importantly various efforts to reduce the number of citizens who can vote.

I’ve said this from the beginning.  We know more than you, and we make so much more money than you, and it isn’t really fair that your vote equals one of our votes.  You see the Supreme Court made a major mistake years ago when they said that the principle was one man one vote.  What they should have said, and they are starting to get there now with Citizens United, is that the best principle for our corporatocracy is one dollar one vote.

So if you make the minimum wage, you should get the minimum vote.  But if you have bonuses, and capital gains income and investment income then you should clearly have more votes—in line with how much money you have.

So when ALEC puts forward model legislation to purge voter roles and make it difficult for the lower classes to exercise their franchise, it isn’t democracy gone wrong, it’s our interests going right.