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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: scoobypax who wrote (1339)10/5/2000 5:40:36 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
This can be taken wrong, but education is an essential component for an informed electorate. Many people who don't vote, probably shouldn't. If democracy was always a good thing then justice could be done by lynch mobs.

Good government is a process, probably more so than the actual voting. If I was a dictator of a small third world country and wanted to legitimize my position, I'd offer a free loaf of bread and a week's reprieve from beatings to anyone who voted for me. That ain't democracy in my book.

In general what you want is higher levels of participation in society by all people. If and when that happens, the voting "problem" will take care of itself. In the mean time, polarization hides the fact that so many are not fully participating. I am thankful that I was born to a family that valued education as opposed to an urban slum where survival at any cost was required.

I doubt my values would be the same if I'd not been educationally privileged. Or that I'd care much about voting.
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