{"id":37864,"date":"2022-12-04T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37864"},"modified":"2022-12-04T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:23:36","slug":"they-must-be-lefties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/04\/they-must-be-lefties\/","title":{"rendered":"They Must Be Lefties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It may look like lamb’s ear, but don’t assume it’ll vote with all the other lamb’s ears.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

One of the terms that conservatives thinkers have for Dr. Kendi’s thoughts<\/a> on correcting American racism is identitarian politics<\/em>, which means that identifying a person on the basis of physical, or more rarely other, characteristics as a member of a given group will also give you the most reliable key to their politics.<\/p>\n

This tends to get on the nerves of just about everyone else, and post election polling seems to confirm that it’s a broken contention. Democratic assumptions about the Latino vote has been wrong for several years, as many of them think that illegal immigration is a serious problem and illegal immigrants should be deported.<\/p>\n

But this report might suggest something quite similar is going on in Oklahoma:<\/p>\n

As a group pushes to make abortion a constitutional right in Oklahoma, there\u2019s new attention on the process they\u2019re trying to use.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Warren Hamilton said he wants to change how many votes are needed to change laws. Right now, state questions pass by a simple majority, which he argues disenfranchises rural Oklahoma. …<\/em><\/p>\n

The newest possible state question making headlines is State Question 828, which by a vote of the people would amend the state constitution to protect abortion rights. Hamilton announced via press release that he\u2019s looking to file a joint resolution that would require state questions to be passed via a two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n

Hamilton argued the current system disenfranchises rural Oklahoma, giving a voice to only the major cities. The McCurtain lawmaker also alleged it allows for voter fraud, election tampering and out-of-state influence. [KOCO News5<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears Hamilton has a sudden suspicion that all those anti-abortionists from the pre-Dobbs<\/em> era are just not as devoted to the cause as he might have thought back then.<\/p>\n

But his thinking is so odd. Rural Oklahomans are pro-life while city inhabitants are pro-choice? Is he so sure of that? And just because rural inhabitants are outnumbered, it’s necessary to come right out and say the votes of city-dwellers are to be discounted?<\/p>\n

That’s one way to start a riot, to make voters, even your voters, unhappy with you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I look forward to hearing how this works out for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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