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Why is it that the "freedom lovin' god fearin'" moral majority rightwingers are the first ones to want to restrict another person's freedoms? When questions about restricting anyone's right to vote comes up that is a sign that the America I know is truly dead.
because they're not smart enough to realize that there is about a hair's width difference between them and the very people we are fighting in Afghanistan.
Anyone on the Public Dole should not be allowed to vote..
"A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority who vote will vote for the candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." -Sir Alex Fraser Tyler
Pass a test of who and what is on the ballot, in English, and you get to vote. One's ignorance shouldn't be empowered. You have to pass a driving test, right? Well, before you drive the ship of state, you better prove you know something about it.
While the radical right rails against elitism, they would support a measure that would restrict voting to the smartest and most informed segment of the public, ultimately promoting the ultimate in elitism they so despise, which is the ability of all citizens to have a voice in selecting the people who run their country.
Well, why don't we just trash the entire Constitution and let the "smart people" decide who will vote, then maybe they will vote that voting should be gone and only the "smart people" will rule
The constitution is wonderful, but sometime people give it to much weight. Is the constitution God? Is the constitution perfect?
Anyone on the Public Dole should not be allowed to vote..
"A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority who vote will vote for the candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." -Sir Alex Fraser Tyler
Well there goes the right of anyone in Congress to vote
btw, what if the socio-economic landscape evolves? what if new technologies change economics? what if when we finally perfect robots it changes economics? it could leave us with a slave-like economy without the moral repercussions and without the necessity for wages...what then? if someone votes in anticipation of that, are you going to tell them they don't understand economics?
If that happens then America will have to cross that bridge at that time, until then
That's what poll tests (which is pretty much what you're advocating) have traditionally accomplished - keeping the undesirables from voting, whether because they're the wrong color for the poll-worker or because they don't subscribe to the poll-worker's economic theories.
Different target group - same effect. Which is why poll tests were outlawed.
What do simple math or economics test have to do with race? For all I care let only minorities design and adminster the tests.
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