That anyone should be allowed to vote.
I mean, obviously I believe in democracy, don’t get me wrong… My idea is that you should have a chance to be allowed to vote. Like you have to at least pass a reading & comprehension test before you get like a voting license or something.
You don’t get to drive if you’re incapable to see the road, you don’t get to vote if you’re incapable to understand what a politician is saying to you.
I’m sorry
Edit: I’m not from the USA, so I didn’t know that there was already something similar back then.
Still, I believe that basic comprehension is foundamental in the voting process and there should be a way to check it. Otherwise there is no failsafe to populism taking over
You’re probably already aware that there have been literacy requirements to vote in the past in some places in the US, but those were actually an excuse to disenfranchise black people. https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/right-to-vote-suffrage-women-african/voter-registration-literacy
Literacy tests were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1965. There have been recent attacks on that law including the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v Holder which overturned election oversight in jurisdictions with a history of racist disenfranchisement; and Allen v Milligan from a couple months ago was an attempt to overturn gerrymandering restrictions, but thankfully it failed. Combine that with continuing voter disenfranchisement (for example far too few polling places in Atlanta leading to black voters waiting in line many hours to vote), and there is no doubt in my mind that if literacy tests were legal again they would be used the same way they were in the 60’s.
Personally I think history has shown that we get better leaders when more votes are counted.
That woman, queer folk and PoC want too much space in this world.
That there are no obsticals for those groups, they just made them up.
I am not activly thinking that. But everytime i wish to speak my mind i am still asking myself “should i say something? Am i qualifyed enough? Maybe i get called out for being stupid 🥲”
That there’s hope for humanity…
If COVID has learned me one thing is that there is still hope! We really have a make it a large enough problem before the powers are willing to change.
Covid has show me the exact opposite. Governments saying this is fine, keep going out less than a week before ordering a full lock down. Karens and Karims (is that the male for Karen?) going crazy about something as easy as stay home and less than a year latter, people openly couching in public without even a mask
That we’ll solve climate change and I’ll get to live past 50
We probably won’t solve climate change. We might be able to make huge air conditioned complexes with just a single basic bed for everybody with insect farms underground for us to eat?
Despite all logic pointing to the falsity of it, I cannot stop seeing the past and future as places that exist.
Why do you say they don’t exist? A specific past clearly exists, and if you believe in determinism, a specific future exists as well.
