{"id":3882,"date":"2026-07-30T21:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:12:34","slug":"why-voting-is-not-a-right-but-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"Why voting is not a right but privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My mom often tells me that I\u2019m \u201cintense\u201d in my opinions, but what I think she\u2019s perceiving is that I have convictions, based on lots of prior thinking and observable evidence. With regards to certain topics, she must see me as set in my beliefs, unwilling to change or consider \u201calternative\u201d (her) thoughts on a particular matter, but that\u2019s not it\u2014it\u2019s that I\u2019ve already explored all the data and viewpoints, and arrived at what I view as the correct conclusion. More investigation will not yield new information, and history is what it is. Of course, this only applies to a handful of things that I\u2019ve really thought through\u2014there is plenty that I don\u2019t know, and I am more than happy to be educated where my own knowledge is lacking (though naturally, I\u2019ll have a conservative\/traditional\/right-wing bent).<\/p>

Read more \u2018The science\u2019 speaks for itself \u2014 until it\u2019s subpoenaed<\/a><\/p>\n

But, here is one of those topics where I cannot be convinced otherwise: Voting is not<\/em> a human right, and simply being human does not automatically entitle you to participate in the political system. The ability and privilege to cast a vote belongs to a very select few.<\/p>\n

We hear all the time that \u201c.\u201d But if that were true, then why don\u2019t we send out ballots to the entire world? Are there not humans all over? The left doesn\u2019t even argue anymore that voting should be exclusive to citizens; they advocate that anyone in our country, whether he\u2019s a Salvadoran rapist or an Afghan goat-humper, gets a say in how things should go politically.<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t babies get a vote? Three-year-olds? Aren\u2019t they also human beings? The left wants to lower the voting age to 16, but what about being 16 suddenly makes a person a human? Did they not have human rights before that? Human rights are rights given to us by God, those things endowed to us by a Creator because we are a unique creation with inherent value. Those rights are limited, and easily articulated: life, liberty, and property.<\/p>\n

So, like I argued, voting is not a human right. Therefore, it\u2019s a privilege.<\/p>\n

And how does one have the privilege of something? Well, they\u2019re either given it by virtue of their birthright, or, they earn<\/em> it\u2014and this is where I arrive at the inescapable reality: property-owning American men who can pass an IQ test are the only people deserving of such a privilege.<\/p>\n

People may say this is \u201cunfair,\u201d but life\u2019s not fair. While we\u2019re equal in value before the eyes of God, we\u2019re not<\/em> all equal. Some people are prettier, some people are smarter, some have better starts in life, some have more opportunity, and men and women, with their very different brains and thought processes, are suited for different roles and tasks.<\/p>\n

I had a former (leftist) best friend explain to me why the Constitution was an obsolete document: she said the people of today are \u201cway smarter\u201d than people 300 years ago. This was coming from an interior designer, whose grand education was color theory and how to style a home. She thinks she\u2019s \u201csmarter\u201d than Thomas Jefferson with his 150+ IQ level, a command of six or seven languages, including Latin, an advanced knowledge in law, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science? This is the same girl who, during a political discussion, got lost as soon as I brought up the idea of objectivity. I\u2019m actually embarrassed for her.<\/p>\n

Does anyone really want to argue she should have a say in shaping government and policy, actively undoing what Jefferson helped build? She can spout her silly opinions as much as she wants, but we don\u2019t have to take them seriously or award them merit with a vote.<\/p>

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I actually had a college-educated woman, a conservative woman this time<\/em>, tell me that women should be able to vote because otherwise, if she committed a crime, her husband would be on the hook for the punishment. She explained that you can only be subject to the system if you get a say in how it\u2019s run. I was like, wait, what?? That\u2019s nonsensical, and also not true. Again, babies don\u2019t vote, but they\u2019re entitled to legal protections. 15-year-olds don\u2019t vote, but they\u2019re still granted driving privileges, and they still have to follow the law.<\/p>\n

Do we want people with cognitive (dis)abilities like this having any say in complex political matters where theft, tyranny, and democide is a very real possibility when people don\u2019t choose wisely? I sure don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a guy online who goes by Womp Tomp, and he said this:<\/p>\n

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The best argument against democracy is Love Island watch parties. You\u2019re really gonna tell me it matters that people who watch adult Boobahs can vote?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, Love Island is a reality-style television show where young, hot people are sequestered away in a villa, only wearing swimwear, and as I understand it, the \u201cstoryline\u201d is whole lot of swapping and hooking up and broken hearts and hurt feelings\u2014the \u201cBoobah\u201d comment is a reference to an old child\u2019s show, a production that appealed to infantile minds. Is Womp Tomp not completely right? I have a hard time believing any of the people who are entertained by such bread and circuses have the personal responsibility and focus required to be a property owner, and I doubt many of them would pass an IQ test. Problem solved.<\/p>\n

Why should people who have no personal investment in the country have a say? We\u2019re seeing the fallout of such an idea in New York, where the have-nots (a status based entirely on their own poor decisions) are coming for the haves. Criminality is being legalized, because\u2026mUh DeMoCrAcY<\/em> and vOtInG iS a HuMaN rIgHt<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What about the female problem? Sure, there are women who vote the right way (me)\u2014but there are so many more of us who don\u2019t<\/em>. I\u2019m more than happy to restore the male-only system of the founders, even if I don\u2019t get a say, because that\u2019s actually the only way my political beliefs go from a vote to a reality. I\u2019d get my closed borders, my female-only spaces\u2014free of penises and men in makeup\u2014my prayer in schools, my apportioned and lawful taxes, etc. Since women were handed the \u201cright to vote,\u201d have things gotten better\u2026or worse? Back to that idea of objectivity, things are drastically\u00a0worse\u2014objectively<\/em>. Just 100 years of women having political power, and now we have homos running around our streets with their willies out in front of children and having anal sex on public streets during \u201cPride\u201d events like the Folsom Street Fair, the idea that a birth canal gives a baby its personhood is widely accepted, rapists are championed, and borders are being erased. Guys, things aren\u2019t going well, and something has to change.<\/p>

Read more Is Kristi Noem adding any kind of value to President Trump as special envoy to his Shield of the Americas initiative?<\/a><\/p>\n

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