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by JPsgirl on June 17th, 2011
by designer is wearing a ....... on June 17th, 2011
by truthWarrior
on June 16th, 2011
voted:
True
Should the State publish or sell your name,address,party, voting record in connection with any political matter?
by Wynper on February 1st, 2012
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Is America bought and payed for?
by AAUGH! on February 16th, 2012
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What do you think should be the objectives of a democratic nation in working out a national policy for supervising radio?
by R I C K Y on February 7th, 2012
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Is direct democracy feasible now because of the internet?
by Random on February 22nd, 2012
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How would things have been different under President Dukakis? President Gore? or President Hillary?
by Banana Breath plays the piano on January 4th, 2012
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It's a quote. And not a very good one at that.
The way this quote flows makes me think of a quote I just made up:
Who drives a Civic can lose car shows.
by A shout without knowledge is a protest on June 17th, 2011
I guess that's why it only garnered 3 responses. There must be a better way to phrase it. I do like your quote, though!
by JPsgirl on June 17th, 2011
Do you think that maintaining democracy depends on a well informed alert population that holds their leaders to account? Or do you think people can ignore political issues, talk about meaningless bullshit all day and everything be fine?
by truthWarrior on June 18th, 2011
The meaningless bull part.
by JPsgirl on June 18th, 2011
Maybe, if we're lucky and before it's too late, we will have mandatory political and social-issue awareness testing before anyone is allowed to vote for anything.
Until then, voting will remain a popularity contest.
by A shout without knowledge is a protest on June 18th, 2011
Was that a joke? You can't seriously think democracy is protected by giving the government discretionary powers to strip people of voting rights. You make it difficult for a dictatorship to form by limiting the powers of government, not by increasing them.
Political awareness testing would turn a right into a privilege. THAT is how dictatorships start! The absolute core belief of a dictatorship is that people are dumb too do the right thing so they need to control everything. You get democracy back by various grassroots movements to wake up the sleeple, not by excluding them from the process.
by truthWarrior on June 19th, 2011