One reason he would prefer it is because property owners tend to be more Republican than anything else. Also, this is how it was in the early days of our country. But, I don't think this is right because every adult in the U.S. should have a right to vote. IN fact, I believe in making it illegal to not vote to bring out everyone to vote like many countries do already.
I don’t know how many different ways the bigotry of Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist, Stephen Bannon, needs to …
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KING: Trump’s Chief Strategist, Stephen Bannon, said he’d prefer it if only property owners could vote
Stephen Bannon (l.) is pictured during a round table with President-elect Donald Trump (r.) in New York.
(© Carlo Allegri / Reuters/REUTERS)His ex-wife said he openly and repeatedly made anti-Semitic statements about Jews.
His hero, Andrew Breitbart, boldly compared him to a Nazi propagandist as a compliment.
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Now, though, a former Bannon colleague, Julia Jones, who worked alongside him as a partner on a Ronald Reagan film project, revealed to The New York Times that he not only spoke on issues of “genetic superiority,” but that he “once mused about the desirability of limiting the vote to property owners.”
When Jones offered the rebuttal that such a plan “would exclude a lot of African-Americans,” Bannon allegedly quipped back in return that “maybe that’s not such a bad thing.”
Do I really need to explain how deeply racist and problematic these statements from Bannon are? Do you need me to spell out for you how disturbing it is for the chief strategist for the incoming President of the United States to openly say it wouldn’t be “such a bad thing” if most African-Americans were disqualified from voting because they didn’t own land? Do you need me to explain how outrageously racist it was for Bannon, who was a fully grown 51-year-old man when he made these statements to Julia Jones, to basically say he’d like to go back to the way voting was in the 1800s — which was the last time property ownership was a requirement for voting?
Stephen Bannon “once mused about the desirability of limiting the vote to property owners.”
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Or have we crossed a threshold where ethics, integrity, and truthfulness, alongside issues like racism and bigotry, are no longer disqualifiers to work in the White House? Because it certainly seems that way.
These latest statements from Bannon to emerge would’ve disqualified anyone from working in any recent presidential administration. They are disgusting and get to the heart of who Stephen Bannon appears to see and values as human beings and full citizens of this nation. When a man says he’d prefer to see only landowners vote, which has not been the law in this country for nearly 200 years, the phrase “Make America Great Again” all of a sudden makes a lot more sense.
Andrew Breitbart (pictured) boldly compared Bannon to a Nazi propagandist as a compliment.
(NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)Many Bannon apologists have said that even though his wife said he was a bigot, and his hero compared him to a Nazi, and he admitted to creating a platform beloved by bigots, that nobody could prove he had ever said anything bigoted himself.
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Well, this is it.
This is Bannon being a bigot in ways that are familiar to the American public. However, the inference that one needs to have basically used the “n-word” to be a bigot is ridiculous. Bannon has done plenty.
If he maintains his position in the White House in spite of this new revelation, we can only assume that Bannon’s bigotry simply doesn’t bother Trump.
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