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Sarcasm of course..... of course you should have to have some basic knowledge and be voting for something other than keeping the gravy train going for yourself. But I don't see it ever happening.
Last edited by BeerGeek40; 10-22-2018 at 05:14 AM..
Sorry, but the IQ+college degree is stupid in itself. I've met lots of people who have no college degree, but are smarter than average. A typical liberal arts degree today is more indoctrination than education.
Instead, we could go back to the standards in place in 1800. Men only, and only property owners.
Intelligence does not equal wisdom. Wisdom is the practical and effective application of intelligence. Forest Gump would be an example of low intelligence relatively high wisdom.
Nice way to guarantee even more social Darwinism and guarantee nothing but GOP office holders.
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Originally Posted by LINative
Its not the Republicans claiming that their voters that are so dumb that they cannot figure out how to get some kind of voter ID.
But seriously, you can agree or disagree with both parties on quite a number of issues. But what I cannot figure out is why anybody would vote for a political party that would deliberately want to flood their own country with masses of uneducated poor people to compete with millions of Americans already living in poverty. That is plain STUPID.
This one is a mystery to me also. Beyond the ID being free of charge. I do not see the problem as long as the implementation is at least say 6 months in the future.
Intelligence does not equal wisdom. Wisdom is the practical and effective application of intelligence. Forest Gump would be an example of low intelligence relatively high wisdom.
Gump was a movie character designed to be loveable. Can you think of a real life example?
The bottom half of the bell curve has the same citizenship rights as the top half. And I think most of the sub-100 IQ population is capable of becoming informed voters. I'd rather see a short, simple basic knowledge test, something that anyone could pass if they have a legitimate interest in politics and good government. You could make a big list of basic knowledge questions and have the voting machine select 5 at random for each voter. Nobody who gets less than 3 right would be allowed to enter a vote.
Nope. What you and the OP are proposing is voter suppression.
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