Yeah it could just be the bank we use.
I never said that.
But.... those aren't things most people have afaik. That's why it's a big issue every election when republicans try to pass laws to demand these at voting sites.
Everyone born in the USA gets both a birth certificate and a social security card. You'd have to explicitly try not to.
At this point the saying "a hit dog will holler" really is the only explanation that fits.
This also being their prevailing political platform -
So.... why is voter ID an issue every election? What am I missing here?
Depends on where you are. Voting in the USA is really complicated with the three layers (Federal, State, Local). I honestly think if you had verification of citizenship (like a passport, social security card, birth certificate) that you should never be turned away from voting on a Federal Ballot. I do think state and local government elections require a bit of additional scrutiny because otherwise you could end up with left or right leaning districts trucking excess voters to areas they wish to dominate.
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Just check out Margery Taylor Greene. Wants to outlaw drag, finds out her boyfriend / affair partner was filmed in drag at one point, basically responds "WELL THAT'S DIFFERENT!!!"
How it works in most places is that you have a government issue ID, a registered address and you vote at said address. You don't necessarily have to live at said registered address and there's no real problem if it's outdated though. If you move you do have to approach a government office to update your address so you can vote at the right location, otherwise you simply vote at the old one. I don't think you can change it to homeless or to "under a bench". I suppose this takes us back to people needing government issued IDs even if you can prove you are a citizen via your birth certificate.
It's 100% Satanic panic. The pandemic is "over" so now they have to switch gears and get really heavily invested into something else to distract people from their platform having zero beneficial policies for the average person.
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I was talking about the panic over it happening, not whether it happens or not.
Projection and wanting to be exception to their bullshit that they spout for support.
Satanic panic. And most of the videos they use to "prove" that the kids are being "groomed" are actually false and not in any way related to drag. The irony of the right crying how LGBT+ people are grooming kids is that they are quiet when churches are actually revealed to be sexually assaulting kids, or they still support churches.
Drag performers existing and interacting with children isn't an issue to me really?
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Why is it something to panic over? Children are safer with drag performers than they are in churches, but anti-LGBT+ people don't want to address that for some reason. If this is really about the children, then why aren't the right doing anything to protect them? They're just using them as agendas to get people to support their bigoted bullshit.
But, on what reasonable circumstance could that ever happen? That's nonsense. I mean, are parents sneaking kids into drag shows? Clearly a drag show shouldn't allow kids in just the way a strip club or brother shouldn't allow kids in.
Every accusation is a confession.
It's overblown. The right (and left sometimes) rely on outliers to infuriate their base. There have been things like Drag Queen readings at schools, and a restaurant hosting a drag event (not a drag show). The right (and especially alt-right) find something that somewhat fits their narrative (for instance, a restaurant hosting a drag event) and talks about it non-stop so it seems like a serious issue. It's the same thing with the bathroom bullshit from years ago. "What if a man goes into the bathroom to prey on women?!"
I think the societal panic is stupid, but every parent is going to handle parenting differently and there's not much we can do about that. I had friends in school who were banned from watching the Simpsons (which I was obsessed with), and I had friends who could watch South Park (which I wasn't allowed to until I was about 14 or so). I have kids and while they're not yet old enough for this to be a concern I would not take them to a Drag Show, or a strip club, or a church. It's not any disagreement or judgement on any of those lifestyles. I just don't care to have those things as a part of my childrens' lives.