Guest Post by Simon Black
One of the really interesting things about where I live here in Puerto Rico is that my house is located within the grounds of a resort… so I bump into a fair number of tourists when I’m at the gym or walking on the beach.
People engage me in conversation a lot– they can’t imagine actually living in such a paradise, and they’re full of questions about what it’s like.
I always enjoy talking about Puerto Rico and giving visitors a candid view of the advantages and disadvantages of living here. But almost invariably as part of that conversation, someone asks:
“Yeah, but don’t you lose the right to vote when you move here?”
Yes, it’s true that Puerto Rican residents cannot vote in a national election. Puerto Rico does hold a presidential primary. But once the party nominees are decided, Puerto Ricans cannot participate in the general election in November.
And I’ve heard this dozens of times since I moved to Puerto Rico in 2018– it seems people REALLY cling to their right to vote.
My view is that it’s a completely pointless exercise, and one that I was happy to trade for Puerto Rico’s generous tax incentives.
I always respond in the same way when people bring up this issue– “Do you really think your vote actually counts?”
And what’s happened so far this month in the primary race really proves the point.
Just look at the Iowa race; the party is so hapless and incompetent that they can’t manage to properly count the votes (yet these same people want to be in charge of your healthcare and children’s education…)
And when they do count the votes, it still doesn’t seem to matter.
More people voted for Bernie Sanders in the Iowa race than for any other candidate. Yet Pete Buttigieg ‘won’ the state because he received the most delegates.
Then there are ‘superdelegates’, i.e. party elders who can choose whichever candidate they want regardless of who the voters pick.
And of course, by the time the national convention takes place this summer, it’s entirely possible that no single candidate will have won enough delegates to lock up the nomination.
At that point, all the votes will be discarded and it will be up to the party insiders– delegates and superdelegates– to decide who the nominee should be.
How can these people possibly say with a straight face that votes actually matter?
The even bigger quirk is the outsized importance of these earliest caucuses and primary races.
About 300,000 people voted yesterday in the New Hampshire primary. That’s less than 0.1% of the US population.
And yet those 300,000 New Hampshire voters have enormous influence over the entire Presidential race.
Joe Biden came in a distant 5th in yesterday’s New Hampshire primary. As a result, the media is now saying that he is no longer viable, and his former campaign donors are lining up to fund other candidates.
But in actuality the gap between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (who came in first place) was just 50,522 votes.
Nationwide, that’s a drop in the bucket. It’s scarcely a rounding error.
That’s 50,522 people in New Hampshire who have effectively sealed the fate of Joe Biden’s campaign.
And if he drops out in the next few weeks, it means that people who live in states that don’t hold their primaries until May or June won’t even have the opportunity to vote for Joe Biden.
Don’t get me wrong– I have no love for Joe Biden… or any of these people for that matter. I like politicians as much as I like a visit to the proctologist.
But it strikes me as a bizarre that a tiny fraction of a percent of the population has so much influence over a national race. Is this really the most advanced republican democracy in the world?
These Bolsheviks are constantly howling about economic inequality and complaining about wealthy people in the top 1%.
Well, they have managed to engineer massive electoral inequality and created a top 1% among voters.
A voter in New Hampshire has far more influence than a voter in, say, Kentucky, who won’t have the opportunity to vote until May 19th.
By then, the pool of candidates that a Kentucky voter will have to choose from in his/her primary election will be much more limited.
This is effectively a form of disenfranchisement. This idiotic system gives a handful of voters more power, and more choices, than other voters.
And I have to say, for as ‘woke’ as this Bolshevik party pretends to be, it’s certainly ironic that this top 1% voting elite happens to be in states that are predominantly white.
Try explaining to a Native American living in South Dakota whose primary isn’t until June 2nd that his/her vote counts as much as the white guy in New Hampshire.
This system is a complete farce, rampant with insider corruption, comical incompetence, and a deliberate lack of innovation.
And I don’t exactly cry myself to sleep every night that I’m no longer able to participate… I’m more than happy to trade away my voting rights for the extraordinary 4% tax incentives of living in Puerto Rico.
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“It turns out the Bolsheviks love the top 1%”
iiuc marx was a close cousin to rothschild. much of the .01 and most of the top bolsheviks are jews. it’s all the same tribe. same reason why the rosenbergs and pollard handed over nuclear secrets to the jewish bolsheviks who ran the soviet union, same reason why bernie honeymooned in the soviet union – same tribe.
I will be voting on Super Tuesday and the field of candidates will be very narrow. I was hoping to give (sell) my ballot to Yang, so maybe he would float me a grand a month.
Now, do we ALL get that or is that just for people with no income. Technically, I have no income. Do I get it?
I don’t know, but I heard him bragging about giving a woman in NH $1,000 a month, just a few hours before he hung up his spurs.
I have no earned income, but that does not stop Uncle Sugar from claiming a nice chunk of my money each year.
Why would anyone want to live in a shit hole country, like puerto rico.
I wouldn’t even go there on vacation, let alone think about living there, if you get sick, you need to fly back to the states, or else deal with a doctor who got his degree in another shit hole country.
So, now that we know all the facts there is to know about puerto rican shit holes,
why are we reading about some rich guy who is too cheap to pay taxes?
I’m with you on PR, but tell me; when was the last time you went to a doctor here in the States that WASN’T from India?…
The primary election should be held on the same day in ALL states; PERIOD. THIS is the ONLY WAY every American’s vote will count. Until that happens, nothing will change. The candidates can continue to kiss farmer ass in Iowa, black ass in South Carolina, Mexican as in California, etc.
As for giving up your right to vote so easily; if you don’t vote, don’t complain.
I hear you but i wonder, too, of it matters; doesn’t seem to matter what color party, what ethnicity, what state (or country, in the case of BHO) of origin, what campaign promises get made . . . they all sell a bill of goods and deliver piles of shit.
Of course they do: money equals power, and Commies love power. They just don’t want the rest of us to have either. That’s why it never works, and why they want to shove it down our throats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYQvZk9CgL0