The Ignorant Shouldnt Vote

[gallantwarrior]

If someone votes based upon race, personality, looks, style, likeability, single issue concerns, or the expectation that some mindless bureaucrat is going to improve their life they shouldnt be voting........

The clueless vote does not benefit the nation as a whole and is indeed immoral.....

Not to mention adolescently stupid slogans like "Hope & Change" and "Yes We Can!" Imbeciles

But those perky slogans appeal so nicely to the 'fizzy-pop' voters. They don't give a fig about substance, as long as the slogan is catchy and the theme music is 'uplifting'.

 

[antiquity]

Two question should be asked of voters and if they can not answer they should be denied the right to vote no matter their racial make up.

One: who is president and vice president right now?

Two: what are the names of the candidates who are running against the incumbent president and vice president?

If you can't answer these two questions you shouldn't be let out of the house on election day.

 

[Cammmpbell]

A classic argument for why democracies need widespread public education is that education makes people better voters,” Mankiw writes. “If this is true, then the less educated should show up at the polls less often. They are rationally delegating the decision to their better educated neighbors.”

Encouraging more ignorant people to vote is not just pointless, argues Jason Brennan; it’s morally wrong. There is no duty to vote, but many people may have a duty not to vote. Boosting turnout among citizens who are young, uneducated, or otherwise less likely to be engaged—the primary targets of get-out-the-vote campaigns—is likely to have the unintended consequence of encouraging people to fail in that duty.

To explain why we might worry about casting an uninformed vote even when no particular vote is likely to be decisive, Brennan conjures this terrifying thought experiment: Imagine you come across a firing squad about to kill an innocent child. Assume all the bullets will strike at the same time and that there’s nothing you can do to stop them. You are invited to be the 101st member of the squad. What do you say? Brennan posits a framework to deal with this kind of hypothetical, the “clean hands principle,” which states that “one should not participate in collectively harmful activities when the cost of refraining from such activities is low.”

None of this is to suggest that the government should test voters or use some other legal means to limit voting. Instead, this is a private moral concern for each voter. If you believe your vote is likely to be ill-informed or that a particular race is likely to yield an unfair, unjust, or otherwise bad outcome, you should refrain from participating in a collectively harmful activity, thus keeping your hands clean. Get-out-the-vote campaigns promote precisely the kind of morally condemnable ignorant voting we should be discouraging....

Your Vote Doesn't Count - Reason.com

Not to worry. The racist state governments, in many of the states require a photo ID in order to cast a ballot. Tennessee has solved the problem....one's carry permit has a photo ID and since all the rednecks go armed it's a no brainer. Since we know what the intelligence level of a redneck is both problems are resolved.

"Thump Them Bibles And Shoot Any Atheist Who Refuses To Thump One"

I'm pretty sure that the required photo ID is not limited exclusively to carry permits.

LMAO!

You ever heard of satire or metaphoric speech? No...I guess not.