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Should People With Low IQ's Be Allowed To Vote?
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In an ideal world there'd be a properly neutral body who would put together really easy to read [e.g. as easy as this] guides to the differences between the parties in the period running up to election, very carefully spelling out the pros, cons, limitations, & so on, of everything that was being said.
This might help get around the difficulties caused by there being so much spin, & so much stuff left unsaid... I mean, looking at something like this from last time, it's, as one would expect, all propaganda, all rhetoric, with no substance & no admissions about the downsides of what's being proposed.
But of course no body could ever be "properly neutral" since so much of what it'd take to produce these guides would slip into subjective territory.
Oh well.FACT.0 -
the_flying_pig wrote: »In an ideal world there'd be a properly neutral body who would put together really easy to read [e.g. as easy as this] guides to the differences between the parties in the period running up to election, very carefully spelling out the pros, cons, limitations, & so on, of everything that was being said.
But of course no body could ever be "properly neutral" since so much of what it'd take to produce these guides would slip into subjective territory.
Oh well.
I imagine that Alistair Campbell and Steve Hilton have a bit of time to spare at the moment ...No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
It would seem to me just as valid to vote, without knowing any detailed polices, for (say) labour on the basis that labour was the party for working people or to vote conservative because conservatives are the party of low taxes, as it is to analysis in depth exactly what ' we have no plans to increase VAT' actually means.0
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GeorgeHowell wrote: »I imagine that Alistair Campbell and Steve Hilton have a bit of time to spare at the moment ...
aye. or give the gig to Sky TV, I suppose.FACT.0 -
I will agree some people are too stupid to vote.
I remember in my earlier years when an election was coming up, me and my boss where discussing who was voting for and came up with good reasons why we had made different choice.
We then invited another girl in the office into the conversation to see if there was any other ways of looking at it, to which we found seee was voting for a party and her reason was 'because she always has', to which when question why, 'because her parents always had'!
Maybe a short quiz on the voting slips on a few basic policies of parties could get rid of these.
Then again there is the transitory voter who may start off left wing in early life.Don't give two hoots about politics when they have little in the way of material assets who morph in to right wing as they become established and do have assets. Then drift off into early dementia wearing rose tinted spectacles."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Then again there is the transitory voter who may start off left wing in early life.Don't give two hoots about politics when they have little in the way of material assets who morph in to right wing as they become established and do have assets. Then drift off into early dementia wearing rose tinted spectacles.
Many people vote according to which side their bread is buttered -- mostly rational (but can be short termist). Many others vote according to preconcieved and mentally hard-coded notions about class, class loyalty, and class betrayal -- utterly irrational.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
Absolutely a rational decision was made by that 'man in the street'. I fully approve of his ability to see the essence of the situation whilst you totally miss the main point.
Your view shows you lack conceptual or analytical thinking or indeed any ability to think atall.
Oh, really? Care to explain to me how the two issues are related then?0 -
It should be linked to tax paid .One vote for every £10K tax paid as all you are voting for is how that money is spent.0
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It should be linked to tax paid .One vote for every £10K tax paid as all you are voting for is how that money is spent.
Haha nice idea.
Labour would table an amendment to add one vote for every £10K received in benefits, lest "the most vulnerable in our society" should be "socially excluded".No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
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