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Originally posted by truthquest
1) An IQ test. If you can't score above average, then we really don't need your vote. Stupid people will vote for a stupid choice. There are 300 million Americans and frankly about 30 million of them participating would be plenty enough for a democracy to work. At the moment about that many vote but actually are just pretending to participate and they have no clue what they are voting for. Maybe 100,000 Americans genuinely participate in our democracy at the moment, so the 30 million figure would be a thousand+ percent improvement.
Originally posted by truthquest
Maybe those with the better IQ's will know that if congress votes to give rich bankers 2 trillion of everyone else's money because "we have to do something so we have to the rich people a bunch of money and hope for the best", the next step is to kick out congress instead of re-electing them every time without failure. Who knows.
Originally posted by truthquest
2) A candidate fact test. If you don't know what your candidate's position is on any issue whatsoever like half of today's voters, then you are just screwing up democracy by going to the polls. If you are going to vote for someone then you damned well better know their position on at least three issues. In fact you should have to learn at least ten of a candidate's positions to have the right to vote for a candidate.
Originally posted by truthquest
3) Essay test. Namer you top five issues. Now, explain you positions on those issues. This will take a long time and that is most of the point. Aside from people actually having to think about what they are voting for, people will have to spend about an hour taking a test. Now you have a system where you really have to actually care about the issues before you vote because if you are one of those lazies who base their decisions on TV commercials, you are definitely too lazy to spend an hour writing an essay at your local polling place.
Originally posted by consciousdrum
Last time i checked,the constitution said notta thing about a democracy....we are supposed to be a republic...unfortunately now we are a fascist police state
Originally posted by Paroxysm
OP,
Go re-read the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and for gods sake...PLEASE don't vote until YOU have done so.
If you feel that our Republic resembles a Democracy, feel free to drop into the thread which I created and linked above to share with us why you feel this way.
Originally posted by truthquest
At the moment democracy is not working, and in my mind that there is only one specific people group at fault: the voters.
Originally posted by Paroxysm
OK, I still stand behind the fact that you need to re-read the Constitution INCLUDING the Bill of Rights.
Originally posted by truthquest
At the moment democracy is not working, and in my mind that there is only one specific people group at fault: the voters.
This statement you make right here in your OP is completely flawed. WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY! PERIOD!
The reason our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC is not working, is because those elected to serve are not adhering to the principles and laws laid out in it.
They run roughshod around it any time they feel like it, and act like it doesn't exist. They also don't listen and respect the general populace, and pretty much have nothing but contempt for the common American, despite the lies that they spew out to the contrary. The mere fact that 'Presidential Directives' even exist is good evidence of this. The President can just decree something now, and it can be enforced with the full force of the law...sounds more like a Dictatorship to me.