Re: Re: 20/20
prudence said:
20/20 as well.
As for the voting thing...you should also own land. Oh wait, we tried all that once before.
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Prudence,
I make no apologies for feeling that our democracy could use some fine tuning. Why should my vote be canceled by a guest of Jerry Springer's? Someone whose entire life is a
Huge DON'T lesson for others? I have spent a lifetime educating myself and getting to know the issues. It seems a waste to allow so much "noise" to get into the system. And, I have yet to hear a good argument for motor voter and other "enabling" laws other than it helps the Democrats stay competitive.
I believe that suffrage should require more than a pulse. Because some mean old Southern Democrats (Yep - Democrats - most of America forgets that part) tried to use chicanery to discriminate based upon race, doesn't equate to a fairly applied discrimination based upon a desired level of civic knowledge and competency. Our society can only gain from removing what I see as base self interest expressed in the entitlement culture we live in now. Society's inability to discriminate "appropriately" where needed is killing us. We fear being labeled. Why, that is the worst thing you can be: a discriminator. We are headed for a cliff as a nation. We need to be smart enough to know when to discriminate and why we are doing it. We have become the land of Zero Tolerance. Which means we have given up judgment, taking a stand, and thinking things through.
I believe someday democracy will take the form of allowing suffrage based upon civic service and minimal competency, it may not happen here. But I think it is the next step in governmental evolution.
Oh, and I know this goes without saying, but I am not talking about a "Bell Curve" type of discrimination. I am suggesting a discrimination based upon competence and nothing more. So please no Nazi or KKK references directed at me for daring to think differently when the more
enabling of you decide to join this debate. Let's talk about this without pissing each other off.

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PS - Glad to see you back. All better?