It is becoming clear that much of the stakes of the November contest will revolve around questions of gender – and specifically, questions of family
“It’s possible,” writes Jessica Winter in the New Yorker, “that if JD Vance had his way, citizenship in the United States would be conferred not solely by birthright but by marriage and children.” This is no exaggeration. In a now viral 2021 clip, JD Vance said: “Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children. When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power – you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic – than people who don’t have kids. Let’s face the consequences and the reality: If you don’t have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice.”
This position now represents large swaths of the Republican party, which has taken on an angry and aggressively prescriptive approach to family life.
Will I be able to marry my couch?
As long as your couch is not the same sex as you are…
As 10 lb. 10 oz. baby Jesus wanted it.
If you don’t have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice.
I fully support this.
I want to see America progress into the future, therefore my vote should matter more than those who want to return America to the past, right?
Anyone over 65 only gets half a vote because they’re gonna die soon.
I’m sure the Musks, Kochs, and Theils of the world will be super excited about giving poor people more voting power. /s
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/
I feel like 200k is a very low cutoff. It’s probably based on some plan Elon and Peter came up with for adopting or birthing 100k babies and making the government pay for them all
Ah, using the old “democratic republic” in the sense to marginalize people, sweet.
Keep in mind they only want “traditional” families and consistently try to block LGBTQ+ from adopting.
They might as well show up and run my family at this point. Their interest in controlling my day to day can be met with mowing my fucking lawn if they’re that up my ass.
He will of course make an exception for the Catholic religious orders that are celibate
This is honestly terrifying but would ostensibly require a constitutional amendment. I know a lot of people who would likely fall for this shit.
It’s impressive how much thought went into to this insanely dumb idea
Yeah I’m a parent and having more kids should not increase your voting power. That makes no sense. You can’t have more free speech, in a truly equitable world, you can’t have more say than someone else unless the situation solely pertains to you
In Vance"s world view everyone (whites only except his wife) is equal but some are more equal than others clearly.
Please vote for sanity and shut the fascists up for good
- good luck on that constitutional amendment that won’t ever get passed
- this is pretty transparently a Nationalist Christian “go forth and be fruitful, but only if you’re white” ploy. They’re trying to turn the US into an ethnostate.
Quick note: the US has yet to transition out of being an ethnostate since its foundation. When they say they’re anti-woke, what they’re really saying is they’re pro-apartheid
Hrmmm… given their other policy stances I assume that means if I and a buddy freeze a bunch of fertilized eggs we can vote for each one of them?
As hilarious as the couch stuff(ing) is, this guy’s policy positions fill me with violent rage.
Imagine how the monkeys felt as their balls singed.
Is that a new JD Vance meme I’m not yet privy to?
This doesn’t surprise me. I remember being told when I was about 22 that I was a terrible person for not having children. It was, you see, irresponsible of me because I should be planning for the future and for who would take care of me. Instead, it turns out, that I’m an awful, awful human being because I will eventually become a drain on resources.
So if the reasoning behind this is that parents deserve to have their votes weighted heavier because they have a bigger stake in the country’s future, shouldn’t Evangelicals who sincerely believe we are living in the end times get less weight than anyone?
