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I think that voting should be limited to employed, law abiding, tax paying, natural born Americans that have served in some type of public service. Public service can be anything from the forestry service to the military, peace corps or political service at any level from local to federal. But in order to determine who leads, you should have to know what it is to serve.
The US got completely fucked up when Democrats starting leveraging minority voting blocks for elections and Republicans starting leveraging religious and higher level economic groups for the same purpose. The final nail in the coffin was limiting the political system to two parties and turning lobbyists loose with little to no oversight. It equates to having no choice but one of the heads of the same beast and depending on who you are and where you are in the system, it means a slightly more or less lubed fucking.
Check out this definition -
de·moc·ra·cy
Pronunciation:
\di-ˈmä-krə-sē\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural de·moc·ra·cies
Etymology:
Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos + -kratia -cracy
Date:
1576
1 a: government by the people ; especially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2: a political unit that has a democratic government
3 capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the United States <from emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy — C. M. Roberts>
4: the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority
5: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
I agree with all of these definitions of the word democracy and the political system that it entails. I do not feel that limiting voting as I suggest above violates 5 and that it would lead to a hell of a lot less people like these fucking morons determining the future of that once great, now pathetic country.
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