re: #343 LudwigVanQuixote

Forget about the voting criteria for a moment. What you’re proposing is a society in which a class of citizens wouldn’t have political representation. These people would for all purposes live in a dictatorship. Doesn’t the idea bother you?

This would also be a good time to remember that the people in the video are self-selected among those who like Glenn Beck, and that the interviews were edited to show the parts where they are making a fool of themselves. We are not looking at a cross-section of American society.

Finally, bear in mind that, in spite of a fair amount of noise and demagoguery in the media, it’s very unlikely that voters today are less informed about policy and current events than voters in the 19th century — there’s no reason to believe that today’s citizens are particularly ignorant.