On 12/27/2013 12:12 PM, Hils wrote:
On 2013-12-27 15:06, Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
Liberty Net: 21 December, 2013

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• It’s often been said that you can’t legislate morality, and it’s
equally true that you can’t legislate intelligence. And allowing
near-morons to have an equal vote with everybody else is not a very
intelligent way to structure a society. (1 hour 16 minutes)

How do you define intelligence? The United Kingdom is ruled by its
biggest landowners, richest bankers, biggest corporations, and a cabinet
and parliament packed with Oxbridge politics graduates. Between them
they have asset-stripped Britain's industry, all but destroyed its trade
unions, tossed British workers onto the dole and (largely at the behest
of landowners, bankers and some employers) allowed mass immigration from
Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Switzerland has for many years allowed "morons" not only to vote for
representatives but to enact laws and amend their country's
constitution. They're still one of the wealthiest, most stable and
cultured countries on Earth.

Real democracy works. The bogus democracy forced upon us by oligarchs is
failing, and its failures will continue to get worse, precisely because,
however citizens vote, the people available for "election" act to
further the interests of an elite.

It may be a little too late to wish free-thinkers a Happy Christmas, so
I'll also wish them the season's best as well. :-)


If you have universal suffrage you must have universal education and
objective news reporting. You can't have a liberal democracy in a
country full of wackadoodles.