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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderGreg who wrote (4290)	12/2/2000 4:53:05 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 6710

I understand you Lefty's feed off your ability to get people into the booth who don't have a clue, which is why even the most reasonable reforms will be difficult. As usual, it's your general outlook that will have to change. Voter qualifications got a bad name because they were used for the same kind of manipulations that your boys engage in now-only in mirror image: Lower turnout to keep certain minorities from voting in southern states in the '50's and '60 versus excessive ballot box stuffing using human zombies today. Both types of manipulation are fatal (as are all other types), but the former was done away with decades ago by the courts and the civil rights laws. Those laws accomplished a narrow task that needed doing, but inadvertently threw out a principle that is essential to the survival of democracy: that mass voting by those who are completely uninformed, illiterate, and unqualified destroys any chance of elections to reflect the public will. The current situation makes old-fashioned machine politics look like a far less corrupt alternative. The arguments for literacy tests were never successfully disputed-only overridden in the mistaken belief that there's something racist about them. The new Liberal Racism is the prominent feature of Clinton/Gore politics, and, rather than voting 93% with these new Nazi's, black citizens (among others) should be outraged. Since I believe in the main founding principle of the republic that, given freedom, people tend to become wiser (regardless of demographic background), I call for renewed debate on how the Left has made a shambles of our democracy in their lust for power. I have a great deal of faith that, once the discussion is revitalized, people of any and all ethnic backgrounds will come to understand the problem, and see the value of solutions. The 2000 election will re-kindle the idea of quality in elections...