|
If we're going to channel The Founders here, why don't we do it all the way: I agree that we should reduce the constituents, but I don't agree, will, that we should reduce the population. We should disenfranchise those who don't own property. The disenfranchised are the uneducated anyway, and property ownership is one of the basic foundations of the Constitution anyway. If you own your own home, whether it be a condo, house or houseboat, you can cast your ballot. That eliminates many of the elderly, the youth and the poor. It could potentially also elminate the "nerd" vote since they stereotypically live in parental basements, but that's also a sector of the population that could forge identification easily.
Make voting matter again. People generally don't vote because they don't think that their ballot makes a difference. Making the Capitol an obsolete building won't change the apathy.
__________________
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
|