Voting this morning in the AZ state primary I was put in mind of an old post from a couple of years ago that bears reposting and editing:
Things are really getting bad here in the fascist state of Arizona. Why just this morning I was forced to show ID when I went to vote. I strolled into the polling place looking a fright after several hours of hiking. I introduced myself as 'King Blog' but that cut no ice with the old ladies who 'manned' the place. They asked to see my driver's license! What chutzpah! What bigotry! A bunch of damned Nazis, if you want my opinion. What if I forgot it, or never had one? Then the Nazi bastards would have disenfranchised me! The very act of requesting ID is an act of
disenfrachisement and intimidation. Besides, it prevents me from voting twice, which I have a right to do.
I should have adapted a line from B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Papers? I don't need no stinkin' papers! I'm a human being. You just hate me because I smell like I spent the night under a bridge. I have the right to do whatever I want, wherever I want, and vote wherever I want and as many times as I want. You Anglo bastards are raaacists because my skin isn't lily-white like yours and because my name ends in a vowel.
I'm gettin' the hell out of this rattlesnake-infested inferno of gun-totin' yahoos, rednecked racists, and xenophobic immigrant-bashers. I'm going where a man can be free. I'm headed for Castro's island paradise. "Live free or die," as I always say.
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