Many of our brothers and sisters on the left side of the
political spectrum have consistently raised the valid issue of foreign
interference by Russia in our election dating back to 2016. Indeed our various intelligence agencies have
provided evidence to support this charge thus giving it fairly irreproachable
credibility, notwithstanding President Trump’s misspoken words in the past and
his down-playing of this issue for whatever reasons to the
contrary.
Despite this, it appears that Russia’s tampering and
interference produced no credible evidence to suggest that they swayed the
election’s results regardless. Yes, this
is a grave matter, and President Trump should have been quite forceful with
Putin regarding this to prevent it from happening again in the future. His milquetoast response towards Putin did
nothing to negate it from happening again and only serves to provide his political
critics with more fodder to claim collusion and thus develop other conspiracy
theories against him. It is readily
apparent that Trump missed a huge opportunity at the Helsinki summit to take
Putin to task about this matter accordingly.
Because of these reasons, our friends on the left have good reason to be
critical of President Trump, despite some of the excesses and more ridiculous
conspiracy theories they have fabricated after the fact.
One must wonder though, how much of this outrage is nothing more
than a whole lot of light and very little heat over the supposed issue at hand? Are our leftist friends truly angry at
attempted foreign influence in our elections that for all practical purposes
had no discernible effect in the election outcome, or are they simply using
this as a political issue in which to further excoriate a president whom they
loathe? I am sure that there are some
leftists that are indeed truly concerned about the issue, but for most of them
I suspect the latter is actually the case.
I point to that bastion of looney leftism known as
California to support my assertion. Many
conservatives have long been concerned about illegal immigrants voting in our
elections. Indeed there have been a few
cases here and there where this occurred and the illegal alien was caught, charged, and convicted. Of course we were mocked, scorned, and the
focus of derision by our leftist friends for thinking this could ever seriously
become a real issue though.
That was soooo last year.
Now, we have the city of San Francisco issuing voter
registration cards to illegal aliens residing within the city.
Yes, all people should be afforded basic human rights and
protections regardless of their legal status, but voting rights used to be
reserved ONLY for American citizens.
Until now –
The supposed reasoning behind San Francisco supporting this
policy is that there are so many illegal immigrants’ children attending public
schools there that the city government thought it was only right that they
should be given a voice to how things were run.
City Supervisor Norman Yee said: “We want to give immigrants the right
to vote,” while conspicuously leaving out the “illegal” prefix.
These “immigrants,” illegal or not, will be allowed to vote
in all city elections if they’re at least 18 and are the parents or guardians
of children who also live in the city. Local ABC 7 affiliate reports:
"As a parent myself and a former member of the SF Board of Education it is critical that the voices of all parents are at the table, particularly those that have historically been denied a voice in the process,” said Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer who represents District 1.
School Board member Matt Haney was the co-author of the resolution endorsing the measure. He says the school board was in full support of it. “I think it’s critical that all of our families have a voice in the governance of our schools,” said Haney.
While San Francisco is the very heart of the leftist beast
of California, evidently there still remains one brave Republican living in the
city that had the courage to disagree. Harmeet Dhillon is the Republican
National Committeewoman from California. She says she voted against the measure
in 2016.
“The reason I voted against it is that I think the right to vote is something that goes along with citizenship and should be,” said Dhillon. She states in a common sense fashion that the SF school board is already obligated to look out for the interests of all the children attending schools in the district. “I don’t think that people who have otherwise tenuous ties to San Francisco given their lack of legal residence should be making long term decisions about that structure and process,” said Dhillon.
I would find myself in complete agreement with Ms. Dhillon.
Let’s summarize, shall we?
Many leftist friends and family are understandably and rightly outraged by the attempts
at foreign influence in our elections by Russia, but evidently in the city of San
Francisco in the very center of the progressive beast, they evidently see no
contradiction or even any issues with allowing foreign nationals to vote in
city elections by granting them legal voting privileges.
Of course, I and many of my conservative brothers and
sisters can hardly be surprised by this latest nonsense from Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district. After all, San Francisco
really isn’t a city that truly functions well anymore. There exists no middle class there at all at
this point as the average home price exceeds 1.6 million dollars. The city has become a mecca for the uber-rich
and the perpetually poor. As a "sanctuary city" they continue to attract illegal aliens to their city limits whom are looking for protection from ICE and other law enforcement agencies. The
needle-laden and human excrement infested streets give proof to the brokenness of
the city. San Francisco barely survives
currently by massive tax payment transfers from the rich to the myriad homeless
street people that live in the city. It
is a perfect example of the abject failure of social and political
progressivism. Enfranchising poor
illegal immigrants with voting rights in the city of course makes perfect sense
to our leftist brothers and sisters as the next logical step in their
progressivism.
It doesn’t, however, give very much credibility to their
concerns of illegal foreign influence in our elections.
