re: #370 LudwigVanQuixote

That is a fair statement. Look, I am not and did not write that we should take anyone’s voting rights away.

I wrote that it dismays me that we have a system where the votes f morons and utter ignoramuses affect national policy.

Alouette picked up on that and made a very good point about the way that limiting voting rights had been abused in the past with Jim Crow laws.

That is why I wrote that I would be for a FAIR educational requirement. In fact I wrote:

If it were done in a way that did not discriminate against race or creed unfairly, I would be all for it.

Of course, the only way to insure that would be to have a proper public education system in place, that had sufficient resources provided to teach all students, for at least a generation.

NOw for those of you showing actual horror at what I wrote, please consider the following, democracy does not work in a nation or a culture that is not ready for democracy.

Look how well the democracies we forced on Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan turned out. Look how well the democracies we forced on various African and Latin American nations worked out. Look ho well the vote we forced on Gaza turned out.

If you have an uneducated, superstitious mass for a nation they democratically elect very bad people.

With Beck, we have the uneducated, superstitious dregs of America finding a loud voice. It is the same damn thing.

So LVQ, if they aren’t ready for democracy with the evil, evil universal suffrage, what do you suggest replace it?