Skipper, it is possible to be a very serious citizen without owning property. Are you really suggesting that only property owners could vote? We have already made it against the rules for convicted felons to vote, and young and/or irresponsible people don't vote in great numbers, either.
In places like San Francisco, a huge percentage of very nice, stable, middle class people cannot afford to buy houses. In the past few months the value of the one I am renting has zoomed up to $400,000, and if we were signing a lease on it now, the rent would be $3,000 a month. As America becomes more and more overpopulated, I predict that more and more people will not be homeowners, and will be paying huge percentages of their income on rent. Should they really all be disenfranchised? Then the rich, and people who had inherited property, would be voting, and the society would have a hard time changing to reflect the current needs and feelings of its inhabitants. That sounds like the kind of situation where revolutions eventually occur. |
