Department of Concessions

I guess someone on the business side of NRO forgot to consult K-Lo before before running this ad:

Meanwhile, I found this editorial from NR, where I saw the ad, to be pretty interesting.  It argues against early and absentee voting in part because "[v]oting is by its nature a communal exercise, and the franchise should be exercised in a way that reminds us that in our republic the people are the masters of the state, not the other way around — that we are citizens, not subjects."  That's a nice sentiment, but people who vote early or absentee aren't expressing some objection to the communal nature of democracy.  Most of them are affirming their commitment to democracy and voting in other ways because they want to make sure their vote counts. 

If you're not near your polling place on election day, or if, say, you have a job and don't have hours and hours to wait around on an arbitrarily selected weekday because your boss won't give you the time off, you need to figure out some other way to vote.  The five paragraphs "the editors" of NR devoted to this issue fail to even note this problem.  It's almost as if they have no connection to the concerns of most working Americans.

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[low-tech cyclist]

It's almost as if they have no connection to the concerns of most working Americans.

Kinda like the way the 'liberals' on the WaPo opinion pages think it would be no problem to keep raising the Social Security eligibility age, because nobody makes a living anymore doing physical labor that breaks your body down over time.

And kinda like the way that conservatives argue that increasing the minimum wage wouldn't help that many people anyway, so there's no point in doing it.

And kinda like how they think everyone can get health care at an emergency room, so what more do people need, anyway?

And...hell, you get the idea.