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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
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No, on giving people who earn more money more power at the ballot box. That would just tyranny over the masses.
If you're looking to get a "better" class of voters, and a more informed voting pool, here's an idea. And it's genius, and perfect.
Make every voter type in the name of the candidate he is voting for. The ballot would say, "Justice of the peace, Position 2" and the voter would have to type in Johannsen. The voter can bring all the notes he wants - he doesn't have to memorize his choices - and it would be set up like Google where if he types Johanson, it will respond did you mean Johannsen?
That would filter out all the people (that is, most the voters) who get to down ballot races and just pick a name by what sounds good to them, having zero idea what they're voting for.
And that's how we get clowns in down ballot races and on school boards. Because the voters know who they want for president and governor, and they have no clue at all the rest of the races but they decide for some reason to vote anyway.
...then shouldn't we embrace with open arms the idea that a person gets 1 vote in elections for every $10,000 of wages and production bonuses they earn through their hard work and sweat? Or would that just devolve into elitism?
Just a thought.
Income doesn't correlate with merit. Income is based on many variables, one of which may or may not be merit.
Merit has a Latin root while aristos has a Greek root. Stick it together with kratos and they mean the same thing.
Do you want to be ruled by the people or by the best?
I think the tactics of government should be worked out by the best, while the strategy of government should be decided by the people. Is that a democracy or an aristocracy? Who cares as long as the results are better.
But then propaganda becomes all that more important. Control the media and then you control the message and can influence people on how to vote.
We see that today with the social issues of transgenderism, abortion and CRT in schools.
Meritocracy has never existed in America. It’s nothing but crony capitalism now. The connected, powerful and rich get what they want while the rest wither way and die
yep tell that to the 90% of millionaires who are self made. Heck i have a few friends who are approaching that level and who both came from broken homes with alcoholic parents. Sure them learning discipline in the military then working full time while studying 4 or 5 every hours a day after work to learn skills to advance had nothing to do with it. Their alcoholic dead beat parents used their "connections" to make them a success. Always people ignore the amount of millionaires who are self made.
...then shouldn't we embrace with open arms the idea that a person gets 1 vote in elections for every $10,000 of wages and production bonuses they earn through their hard work and sweat? Or would that just devolve into elitism?
Just a thought.
Counterthought: Go along with the above suggestion, but cap inheritances at, say, $100,000. I mean - if we really want to see who gets along on their merits.
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