Desert doesn't have to be sandy and dry! A "desert" is land that's "deserted" or abandoned. A place where nobody lives. Out in the sticks.
We probably associate it with sandy wastes, specifically, because people live just about everywhere else nowadays, but that's not the original meaning of the word, it's a later connotation.
Look -- I live in New York State and I would prefer to show ID when I vote than the current bullshit "verification" we do currently (we have to sign a ledger... and they usually bitch about my signature bc I have neuropathy in my hands... so I say "let me show my ID" and the Dem volunteers freak out, while I start to say "That's so ableist....")
"Uh, that doesn’t look like the desert."
Desert doesn't have to be sandy and dry! A "desert" is land that's "deserted" or abandoned. A place where nobody lives. Out in the sticks.
We probably associate it with sandy wastes, specifically, because people live just about everywhere else nowadays, but that's not the original meaning of the word, it's a later connotation.
The right to vote is conditional on citizenship. To ignore that is to imply that it is a universal human right.
Look -- I live in New York State and I would prefer to show ID when I vote than the current bullshit "verification" we do currently (we have to sign a ledger... and they usually bitch about my signature bc I have neuropathy in my hands... so I say "let me show my ID" and the Dem volunteers freak out, while I start to say "That's so ableist....")