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Originally Posted by pan6467
You mean like our friends to the right who claim because a person can't read they can't contribute to society and shouldn't be allowed to vote?
Personally I'd rather yell about a company that gets paid billions to protect our men and pockets the money and doesn't do the job, then take people's rights away or belittle them.....
But alas I guess I'm just one of those lefties that will never learn.
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Pan you don't understand the crux of it.
The poor are just that poor. They are uneducated. They have no resources. They are often in ill health due to lifestyle. They have nothing to unify them outside of being poor.
The poor don't win revolutions. They may get slaughtered in them, but they don't win. So I don't worry about them, they are ineffectual. If they had the ability to revolt they wouldn't be poor in the first place, being poor in the US is almost impossible if you have even a sliver of work ethic and self control.
And likewise we are talking about some pretty basic functions. I'm more for a civics type of test over a literacy, but regardless we are not asking for a lot. It is you who assume all the poor people are illiterate and do not grasp what they are voting for, but you also assume they will revolt for what they don't understand and can't read. At best they are used by others, with empty promises that things will be different when THEY are in charge.