My mouth dropped open when I read this Salon article where a town in Delaware is trying to give business owners who have business in town but the business owner lives elsewhere the right to vote. Proponents of the law admit that they are trying to give businesses more power in the decision making process of the town which sent my already slack jaw all the way to the floor.

What? I mean what? Really, what? I can’t even wrap my head around this pile of bull shit. Businesses should have more power than regular people. Why?

It is a shameless power grab, and nakedly transparent at that. Business owners could vote in their own home town and, if they own a business in the town of Seaford, there as well. People are actually saying this shit like this is a reasonable argument. Why would non-resident business owners need more power? More importantly, why do they deserve more power than every other citizen? And why is nobody making a bigger deal about this? For years, Conservatives have been trying to restrict the vote, now perhaps they have found a backdoor way around it — give the rich more votes and you would have the same effect.

I suggest that if the business owners can’t win the votes of individuals without ginning up their own numbers then perhaps there is something wrong with their position. Giving business owners an additional vote so they can win elections is just a smoke and mirrors trick to give the illusion of democratic decision making. It is, to say the least, the opposite of democratic and an incredibly dangerous idea to even consider if democratic institutions are to survive.