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Topic	Republicans are literally calling for litarcy test for voting.
Trumble 03/26/21 3:24:54 PM #40:	FortuneCookie posted... In the past three decades, Republicans have gotten the majority vote once. The GOP should've been pushed off a cliff by now. But they have a near 50% success rate. Why? Because the electoral college is supposed to vote in accordance with the will of the people, but they don't always do so. Maybe it's their job to maintain the status quo. Maybe they just have the wrong people making the decisions. But there have been too many bad calls for me to have faith in the system. America won't be a true democracy until the electoral college is abolished. No, you just misunderstand how it works. You do not vote for the President. The states vote for the President. You vote to decide who your state should vote for. The general impression I get is that more education around how this actually works would go a VERY long way. It definitely is different to how elections in other places, and even state govt elections in many states, work - but the complaints that they're "not electing the person they should" comes from a misunderstanding of what the people are actually voting for. wackyteen posted... I feel the current age is a fair limiter. It imposes a good age limit to stop parents from popping out kids just to make them vote a certain way and it ensures that they have had the opportunity to or have passed the basic school expectations of the society. So you do support the idea that there should be some qualifier on a person's indepenence and capability of mind, you just would rather it be indirect and based on assumptions instead of actually testing the individual? --- "fart" ~ Machete <cite>Trumble posted [p:952145335] in Republican... [t:79370263]...</cite> <quote>FortuneCookie posted... </cite> <quote>In the past three decades, Republicans have gotten the majority vote once. The GOP should've been pushed off a cliff by now. But they have a near 50% success rate. Why? Because the electoral college is supposed to vote in accordance with the will of the people, but they don't always do so. Maybe it's their job to maintain the status quo. Maybe they just have the wrong people making the decisions. But there have been too many bad calls for me to have faith in the system. America won't be a true democracy until the electoral college is abolished.</quote> No, you just misunderstand how it works. You do not vote for the President. The states vote for the President. You vote to decide who your state should vote for. The general impression I get is that more education around how this actually works would go a VERY long way. It definitely is different to how elections in other places, and even state govt elections in many states, work - but the complaints that they're "not electing the person they should" comes from a misunderstanding of what the people are actually voting for. wackyteen posted... </cite> <quote>I feel the current age is a fair limiter. It imposes a good age limit to stop parents from popping out kids just to make them vote a certain way and it ensures that they have had the opportunity to or have passed the basic school expectations of the society.</quote> So you do support the idea that there should be some qualifier on a person's indepenence and capability of mind, you just would rather it be indirect and based on assumptions instead of actually testing the individual? --- "fart" ~ Machete</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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