Day Brown wrote:
On 05/18/2010 09:17 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.
But it needs very careful handling. This is the same system Confucius
recommended. And what happened was the corruption of the test taking
process in favor of the kin of those giving out the test.

And given the control by corporate mass media, no way could we ever get
a majority to install some test of sanity and competence. But... what
you can do is look for those areas which already have higher standards,
then move and invest there.


Competent public schools and a "truth to power" tradition in the mass
media are essential to a healthy democracy. There are way too few
station owners. Way too few cable companies.

I don't advocate an actual test.