Should all people really be allowed to vote, no matter how fucking stupid they are?

I'm just going to remind you of a quote from Churchill... The best argument against democracy is five minutes spent with the average voter

I've heard it said that the single best argument against democracy was to talk politics with the average person for about 5 minutes. Experience has taught me that it takes way less time than that.

Still, we're all stakeholders in the countries we live in, and we all share the same fate with the decisions that get made.

The problem isn't necessarily who can and can't vote. I think the problem is that people far too often lack critical thinking skills and fill the gaps in their reasoning with more primal emotions like fear, anger, and tribalism.

What we need more than voting restrictions is to elevate the level of discourse and have a higher bar for educating the masses. More often than not people are relying on social media algorithms to spoon-feed them their news, or only using a handful of sources that have been compromised by an audience capture feedback loop.

There's an imbalance in our information diet. People are consuming junk in the form of falsehoods, or highly partisan reporting that only gives them one-sided views. Much like our own nutrition, it's important to get variety. People need to hear more from other points of view to get a much more balanced opinion, because otherwise all we're left with is unbalanced people

And what about the candidates themselves ?

Rather than create a required standard for voting, how about a required standard for standing ?

I also think there should be a height requirement, too many short women with a nasty attitude. The polling stations should be too high for them to read and and know which buttons to push.

I've often wondered that too, but any limitation just causes different issues. No system is anywhere near perfect, at least not for any community where cooperation doesn't come naturally and a government is needed to get some essential things done.

Yes because I think it’s a slippery slope to deny rights to people you view as “less than”.

no, leftists are evidence enough that not everyone should be allowed to vote

Democrats always vote how the media tells them

As a friend of mine puts it, "We can't prevent them from voting, but they should not be allowed to reproduce!"

(for the record: This friend is conservative, he voted for Trump, but he was referring to people who believe that the Fox network actually delivers news.)

You shouldn’t be

Personally, in this modern technical world, I believe US citizens shouldn't be allowed to vote unless they can pass first semester calculus. But that's just me; others will have their own criteria🤣😂😝🤣😂

No there should be a minimum IQ requirement, and also a patriotism qualification

Voting is not that big of a deal. There are two kinds of people in this country the liberals and the conservatives. Easy peasy.

I would say yes since we live in a democracy. Maybe that's the question we should be asking of those we being asked to vote for.

[@thelaststarfighter ] 🤔that is democratic right for you 🤷‍♂️it shows is does have its faults lol

Bad choice of example, a certain chief executive sort of suggested people do just that.

I hate voting, I don't even waste my time

In a non Orwellian society , yes.

Absolutely.

While voting its hard to point out whose who

I have always felt that voting for the President of the US should be taken out of the hands of the American people altogether because history keeps proving that Americans don't have a clue what they're doing.

For several years now, I have been a strong advocator of removing the ultimate selection of the US President solely out of the hands of registered American voters, regardless of what color tie they like to wear.