It’s always enjoyable to watch the latest Kos Kids antics on the latest issues. Today’s is immigration. Titled “Immigration Reform: An American Solution”, the piece out lines the diarist’s solution to the immigration crisis – though, in reality, it doesn’t solve anything. Now, there’s nothing like some mandatory requirements on the immigrant’s part, to solve our illegal immigration crisis!

I mean to say that one of the variables I propose, Mandatory Voting, is universal and extends to all Americans. The other variable, Paying Taxes, already has seeped into our culture and is accepted alongside the many other mandatory governmental requirements such as car insurance, social security numbers, etc. Let us not forget taxes were originally a hard sell, I mean who the hell wants to pay taxes. Collectively it binds us and provides financial fortitude to our common land.

Mandatory Voting is the same. Collectively we must reengage each other through participating in local, state and federal elections. Like taxes we are collectively ensuring representative fortitude. After all a government founded upon the concept of representation is hardly served by complete disdain for voting or complete disconnect from the impact of voting.

Mandatory voting could swing two ways. We could make it incentive based or penalty based. I prefer a tax incentive for those who rack up local, state and federal voting points. I also prefer no penalty for those who just refuse to participate by choice or otherwise, again this is the American way…we must remain free to make our own decisions in the broadest feasible construct.

Bush wiretaps for national security? Stop them! Holding terrorists in Gitmo? Stop it! Requiring immigrants to vote by law? I like it! But, wait. You can’t complete a Kos diary without bashing Bush, now can you?

I also suggest this weakness is doused by eliminating US military posture in Arab lands.  We can’t even take care of ourselves, look around, homelessness, immigrants doing our dirty work and gluttony and convenience drive our culture.  We must reassert our collective intellect in recapturing the essence of the American construct.  That is an open society that seeks to include citizens from around the world.

Vote and pay taxes.  Easy!  Come one come all. Vote out the dirty war dogs that stain our American trajectory with their blood lust and alienation of the American public by electronic rigging of voting and the elitist Electoral College.

Uh huh. Our “elitist” electoral college. The same one which elected Clinton twice? The same one which elected Carter? And LBJ? Amazing how it’s elitist when a Republican gets elected, but not when a Democrat does. “immigrants doing our dirty work”? You mean, like working in offices, running small businesses, going to college, working as doctors…oh, unless you’re referring to illegal immigrants.

Of course Dems want illegals to get a vote ASAP. 2/3 of illegals would vote Democratic if they could. Even the commentators at Kos think this diarist’s idea is half-baked at best.

Voting is mandatory in Belgium, I believe. With a smaller population it’s not so difficult to enforce. But in the US?  Do we seriously want to fine/otherwise punish all those who can’t be bothered with voting?

Although I wish more people whould become engaged in politics, the last thing I want is a bunch of American Idol watching, uninformed, ininspired neanderthals voting for the first name that is recognizeable.

Need I point out the irony in the last one?