"Any endeavor that relies on basic decency can fail." Well said! And therein lies the problem. The only thing that I struggle with when it comes to the right wing agenda (by struggle I mean I have cognitive dissonance) is the right for all to vote. Indecent people vote, usually for indecent candidates. People who have no idea what …
"Any endeavor that relies on basic decency can fail." Well said! And therein lies the problem. The only thing that I struggle with when it comes to the right wing agenda (by struggle I mean I have cognitive dissonance) is the right for all to vote. Indecent people vote, usually for indecent candidates. People who have no idea what they are voting for vote for candidates that have a prettier face or a more appealing name. People vote purely with their pocket book, with no long term view. People vote, inexplicably, for a Marjorie Taylor Greene. How can that be good for a democracy? Sometimes I feel such voters should not be allowed to vote, but then I remind myself that the bad guys think the same way about us except more seriously. I believe even back when the country was first founded, there was thinking that a person had to earn his right to vote. Had to be a property owner, a male, or some such qualification that supposedly better assured an intelligent vote was cast. Today that thinking is front and center with Republicans, only instead of better assuring an intelligent vote, it is applied to their own version of reality. But in the end, I believe the lesser evil is to make sure EVERYONE can vote. Because the alternative is that the indecent will take advantage through indecent means, and take over. And importantly - when EVERYONE is better educated through good public schools and affordable colleges, on average those votes will be more intelligently cast.
"Any endeavor that relies on basic decency can fail." Well said! And therein lies the problem. The only thing that I struggle with when it comes to the right wing agenda (by struggle I mean I have cognitive dissonance) is the right for all to vote. Indecent people vote, usually for indecent candidates. People who have no idea what they are voting for vote for candidates that have a prettier face or a more appealing name. People vote purely with their pocket book, with no long term view. People vote, inexplicably, for a Marjorie Taylor Greene. How can that be good for a democracy? Sometimes I feel such voters should not be allowed to vote, but then I remind myself that the bad guys think the same way about us except more seriously. I believe even back when the country was first founded, there was thinking that a person had to earn his right to vote. Had to be a property owner, a male, or some such qualification that supposedly better assured an intelligent vote was cast. Today that thinking is front and center with Republicans, only instead of better assuring an intelligent vote, it is applied to their own version of reality. But in the end, I believe the lesser evil is to make sure EVERYONE can vote. Because the alternative is that the indecent will take advantage through indecent means, and take over. And importantly - when EVERYONE is better educated through good public schools and affordable colleges, on average those votes will be more intelligently cast.