“The Democracy Initiative.”

The Massive New Liberal Plan to Remake American Politics

At the end of the day, many of the attendees closed with a pledge of money and staff resources to build a national, coordinated campaign around three goals: getting big money out of politics, expanding the voting rolls while fighting voter ID laws, and rewriting Senate rules to curb the use of the filibuster to block legislation . . . . The liberal activists have dubbed this effort the "Democracy Initiative."

Both parts of that second aim are baloney but good luck, anyway.

Why do liberals think (as they clearly do) that people so totally uninterested in the process will, if somehow gotten to register, vote Democratic?

What is the actual evidence, if any, for that?

And just how informed is that vote likely to be, and how solid the preference it records?

The same questions arise about voter ID, really.

So far as I know, any state that requires it will provide it for free if need be.

If someone finds getting it just too much trouble, then . . . . ?

As to the problem of impersonation voter ID is supposed to address, how does anyone actually know the extent of the problem if no one is actually checking IDs of voters?

Compulsory voting has sometimes seemed to me acceptable if not clearly for the best.

But maybe it would work out badly.

Anyway, the first and third objectives look good.

Though I'd rather just abolish the senate, myself.