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The same crowd also appear to be the ones worried about voter fraud, so they're consistency has limits.

You should at least present their argument charitably if you're going to call them hypocrites. They have no issues with state IDs which is what would be presented at the polls since you vote in your state's elections.

Look, when the ACLU is against national IDs you have to at least admit that the idea is worth discussing. https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards

Uh, no. The ACLU has many merits, but no, their ideas are not implicitly worth discussing. They're also the ones in favor of Illinois Nazis.

They represent both the best (a strong belief in an ideal of humanity, and a fervent desire to make the world a fair and open place) and the worst (ideological purity über alles) of the left.

And I say that as a card-carrying ACLU member :)

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