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Originally Posted by Stompy
Um.. all other BS aside, why would you ask people to help CHOOSE something when they know absolutely nothing about it? In the end, you're taking a shot in the dark and are ultimately doing more harm than good.
I think that's half the reason why our country is becoming increasingly screwed up. Hell, even politicians try to pretend like they know what they're doing when they clearly DON'T, and it ALWAYS turns out ugly - worst part is, they get away with it!!
Take, for example, Hillary Clinton during this GTA fiasco. She knows nothing about the game and instead relies on what others tell her to draw her conclusions, which are so flat out WRONG it's sickening.
Most Judges know NOTHING about modern technology, but make rulings on it day in and day out.
Voting for a president is a pretty serious thing... please tell me WHY you would want to count the vote of someone who doesn't know one single THING about the thing they are voting for. Please please please, just explain that.
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You know everything there is to know about your job?
NOONE in congress is ever going to know everything that is why they have aides and pages. A vast majority of congress (whether I like their politics or not) are damned efficient and do very good research.
And who would determine who knows enough to vote?
And what of the people who can't read but know more about politics then most who can read?
What of immigrants, who have become citizens but have trouble reading English?
I'm sorry the Constitution and the Amendments that follow guarantee EVERY CITIZEN the right to vote.....
Once you start adding requirements such as "literacy tests", you open the floodgates. Then you start saying only taxpayers, then only land owners, then grandfather clauses, then only people who pay this much or more in taxes, and so on.
The poor and underpriveleged will revolt, and unlike the poster above I wouldn't be so sure that they would just burn down their own buildings.... and when the vast majority of our military and police come from the poorer sections....