I will settle for a reasonable literacy standard, believing the poll tax is unnecessary.
There are however, questions that the Zeitgeist prohibits in our "free" society. The most important one being, if one party makes it's way (fulfilling the Founders' worst fears) by promoting the robbing of the public treasury (paid for entirely by the productive private sector), and transferring the wealth to their constituency, who are thus rendered powerless and dependent on the charlatans who facilitate the robbery, can that constituency continue to participate in conferring power without, by the nature of their situation, bringing on tyranny, and the failure of the American experiment in liberty?
Simple rules, like forfeiting the franchise in exchange for Social Security dependency at 62 or 65, or forfeiting whenever applying for welfare, are questions that MUST be addressed, or they will eventually destroy the legitimacy of our contemporary system.
Such questions will be forced to the fore if, for instance, the budding movement for black slavery reparations-or a similar seemingly outrageous entitlement demand-becomes a force in the national debate.
It's a damned shame to have to wait... |
