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How many of you have heard all this vial crap about the need for more 'informed voters'

If you ask me, this 'informed voters' nonsense is a bunch of elitist bullshit.

a democracy can not be truly tempered except by including the free and sincere votes of the working man. votes that represent ethics, family values, and dreams. we don't need more 'informed voters' all we need is more free voting citizens.

all you people that think you know better than others are arrogant pricks to assume that you are the ultimate voice for a country.

   

"The working man"? How very quaint and old socialist of you lily, you being the working woman.
No place for girls in that socialist utopia? Men only?

Those birds must be really loud.

   

A feminist that uses 'man'. Come on lily, next you'll tell me that you clean people's teeth?

   

I can quite believe you do a very good job of the ease thing and cleaning!

   

No probs Lily.....just 'cos we are on opposite poles don't mean I don't respect ya!

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Why thank you! I just don't follow political parties or groups just because I'm told to. That's why partisan types are just such easy meat.

I make my own mind up, as do you as I've noticed!

   

Fancy a shag?

   

LOL

   

Nah, I'd make yer toes curl! Good night Lil.......

   

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Did you just call me little boy. I'm Yoda for fuck's sake.

   

Here's Kenneth Galbriath on democracy.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Democracy is eventually based on the good sense of the man in the street and this seems to be pretty reliable.

   

I think that "informed" voters ARE needed - ones that understand the process, government machinery, party politics, ideology and the issues. There's nothing inherently wrong with an educated electorate. The fact it's railed against screams intellectual insecurity - we wouldn't want the lazy blog apers and cut n' pasters to actually understand what they Xerox, would we? Nah.

This is not to say that they should be the ONLY ones voting - democracy loosely means, especially in our contemporary Canadian context, that an inclusive franchise (devoid of many restrictions) have a say, but i'm not sure why anyone would actually dismiss political education. It seems that this is more about social insecurities rather than political science and the irony is pretty obvious.

   

ok not what I thought this thread was gonna be about.

As for the informed voter I completely agree. Why the hell should you get to cast an uninformed vote when you don't even know the name of the politician you are voting for nor what they stand for. You might as well stay at home if your going to be that complacent.
But I am also of the same mind that idiots shouldn't be allowed to have kids until they can pass a test of compatency either.

   

Agreed. In fact, it will be interesting to see what our anti-intellectual relativists think about major federal plebiscites in Canadian history...i'll give ya' a hint - it doesn't help their "point" very much

   

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