bpnjensen wrote:
On May 18, 7:17 am, Kevin Alfred Strom
wrote:

If people are stupid and uninformed they should have no right to vote.
They do more harm than good.
Now, there's something we definitely agree on.

There would be extremely vociferous opposition to any intelligence
test -- or even the simplest civics test -- as a requirement for
voting, however.

Even a literacy test would be verboten in the insane asylum that
passes for the United States these days.

The reason? Any such test would be condemned as "racist." Certain
races would fail even the simplest test in disproportionate numbers.

So, until reality hits us in the face hard enough to make us abandon
the religion of racial equality (which is just as kooky as
fundamentalism), we will continue with a system in which vicious
gangsters and borderline morons barely able to dress themselves have
an equal vote with honors graduates and brilliant inventors.

Of course, reality _will_ hit us in the face eventually, since the
morons and thugs are increasing their percentage of the population
every hour. And it is, more and more, _their_ tastes and
predilections and "culture" which shape our society, determine its
policies, and select its leaders.

With every good wish,

Kevin Alfred Strom.
--http://kevinalfredstrom.com/
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Kevin - at the founding of this nation, and continuing on for quite a
while, What percentage of the population do you suppose could read or
write? And did this Constitutionally prevent anyone from being able
to vote?



The property requirement was effectively a proxy for education and
culture -- as well as a bar against mob rule and against the
have-nots being used to plunder others via the ballot box.

Later, many states instituted literacy and simple civics tests for
voting, without which representative government is much less free,
workable, and honest. They were all struck down in the so-called
"Civil Rights" power grab. They should have been made more stringent
instead.




We used to think the Irish, the Italians and the Poles were thugs
too...

Bruce Jensen



Some of them were. But since they are genetically, biologically, and
cerebrally virtually indistinguishable from the Anglo-Saxons and
Celts who formed the American people, their addition to our culture
and gene pool did not result in any long-term degradation,
endangerment, exploitation, hatred, resentment, or any other kind of
incompatibility.

This doesn't mean we should hate or harm those who are incompatible.
We should just realize that we should go our separate ways, and
support their self-determination and freedom from the Evil Empire.
The Republic of Lakotah is a first step. Perhaps the Tea Parties are
-- as Pat Buchanan says -- the faintest beginnings of a second.


With my best,



Kevin Alfred Strom.
--
http://kevinalfredstrom.com/