Chuck Schumer: Requiring Voters to Show ID to Vote Is "Nothing More Than Jim Crow 2.0"

Everything's Jim Crow.

No, man, it's worse than Jim Crow. It makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.

Malarkey!

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday condemned legislation requiring ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote as "nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0."

Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) has attempted to include the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act in a massive funding package under review by the House and send it back to the Senate.

"The SAVE Act is nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans. Every single Senate Democrat will vote against any bill that contains it," Schumer wrote in a Monday post on the social platform X.

"Speaker Johnson should tell SAVE Act Republicans to stand down or else this shutdown will be on them," the Senate Minority Leader added.

Don't worry, your Republican "Leaders" are already showing their bellies.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has raised objections to including the measure in the funding bills despite White House support for the measure.

"We all want the SAVE Act, but we look at the reality of the numbers here. And we passed the SAVE Act twice in the House. We'll pass it again, we'll do that. But this is a funding package right now, and I don't think we need to be playing games with government funding," Johnson said on Monday.

Do "we" really all want it?

Do "we" really all want it as a priority? Or as "nice to have but not necessary to have" kind of thing?

I learned a word about ten years ago: Velleity.

Velleity

(vah-LEE-it-ee) is a noun meaning a slight wish or inclination that isn't strong enough to motivate action, the weakest form of desire or will, like wanting to write a book but never starting. It comes from the Latin word velle ("to wish"), sharing roots with "voluntary" and "will," but signifies a wish without the drive to fulfill it.

When most Republicans say they "want" something or "agree" with conservatives on a policy, they usually "want" it in the velleity sense: with the lowest level of desire possible before becoming simply neutral about it or even opposed to it.

Meanwhile: The public wants voter ID.

posted by Ace at 02:34 PM

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