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So Mexico has had universal healthcare since 2012.

How was this “corrupt”, “poor” country able to muster the ideological, philosophical strength to do what we can’t? How is it that Americans go into Mexico regularly to receive healthcare at a fraction of the U.S. cost?

Is it Mexico’s Catholic values? Is it the lack of severe racial stratification, the comparative lack of self-identifying Afro-Mexicans in most of the country, and the refusal to include Black people in the Mexican census since the 1910s?

How?

Idea: National Voter ID Card

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Hazardous Thought:

I’m seeing on Twitter that ardent Trumpists are very receptive to a “national ID card” as an anti-immigrant measure. They look a great deal at Mexico’s National Voter ID card as an inspiration.

A national ID card would go quite a ways to combat the “voter fraud” boogeyman.

I know that the ACLU is most consistent in opposing both national ID and voter ID.

But I’m wondering if we should support a National ID card while opposing the state-level Voter IDs.