It's a fantasy stand-in for "mason". "Wainwrights control the country" would be a conspiracy theory you probably shouldn't talk about during sex. The all seeing eye is a masonic symbol.
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Not all people have ID, but the bigger danger with this one is that it's targeting people whose name doesn't match what's on the official record. And that mostly means recently married women and trans people. Two groups that conservatives don't want voting. As ever, it's not about the IDs.
More Americans didn't vote in the 2024 election than voted for Trump. Plenty of Trump voters acknowledged that they didn't like him. If people had more than two choices, they're less likely to not vote or to vote for the fascist.
You're not wrong, but I don't see the advantage of turning your nose up at people who want to be your allies.
asksciencefiction is about fantasy as much as it is about sci-fi, and about other fiction as well. it's for silly questions like "could Shaggy & Scooby have taken the ring to Mordor?" i would think that would make it a bad fit, but who knows.
that's the sub i miss the most. is there any hope getting it going again?
You're looking at one scenario which doesn't come up too frequently, and based on that you've decided that the way your country does it is better. Maybe you're right.
Here's a different scenario where I think the US does it better: when citizenship is only inherited, a person could be born in your country, live their whole lives knowing only your culture, and still not be considered a citizen because their parents were immigrants. Or worse, their grandparents were immigrants. That's a homegrown underclass.
I don't assume that the US has everything figured out, but there's a reason a nation of immigrants values the rights of immigrants.