Should we restrict people from voting?
POST ONE, by Anonymous3
This is one piece of economic philosophy that I particularly hate:
"Voting for someone that helps you in the short run isn’t necessarily the most rational decision. Because, for example, if you are middle class and you vote for someone that will take money from the rich to give to the middle class, that might help you short term, but will likely hurt you long term, when that same rich person has less money to spend to hire the middle class, or to shop at their stores."
It's just ridiculous, and has no basis in fact. Trickle-down economics is a complete fiction, invented by rich people to justify inequality. How come the money going to the rich will trickle down to the poorer, and yet, if that money goes straight to people who are less wealthy it somehow dissappears into the ether? Will poorer people not also spend money in shops, will they not also start businesses?
The standard recourse is to talk about "wealth-creators", as though the rich were a magical breed of people who can't move for the new wealth that mysteriously falls out of their asses everytime they get out of bed. It's a nonsense.
POST TWO, by Anonymous4
I do not believe it's a question of gender or IQ scores.To me,it's a question of knowledge,of civic education,of being truly informed of yuor social and economical suroundings.Voting eligibility should be established (and retested on regular basis) through civic examinations/certifications.The questionaires must be prepared by most capable members of society,designated by public referendums kept before every election cycle.These "most capable" are just suposed to prepare the examinations and not to be the "chosen" ones alowed to vote in the elections!All people who qualify to be "voters" by responding to the civic evaluation questionaires would get a certificate allowing them to cast a vote.Those who do not qualify should wait until the next cycle to try bringing their knowledge level to the required degree.Gender,IQ,general education level,wealth,social position in society and all other such factors should not play any role in obtaining the right to vote.These factors may only be considered by the referendum voters to qualify the persons selected to participate in the questionaires preparation,which is a somewhat subjective process.I know it is not going to happen during my lifetime but I like to dream that someday,into the future,society will evolve enough to adopt some kind of more rational mode of defining democracy.What we are having today it is far from perfect...
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