What do you think of Mill’s proposal to “give extra votes to
citizens with university degrees or intellectually demanding jobs”?
After watching Jay Leno’s “Jaywalking
Citizenship Test” on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJlY9C7YWzI
it would be easy to make an argument that few citizens should be allowed to
vote whether they have a college degree or not.
I have taken the Citizenship test several times to be able to help
immigrants who want to become citizens and personally, I would not object if
all citizens were required to retake the citizenship test before they would be
allowed to vote. In fact, I believe that anyone running for an elected office
should be required to take it and score no less than ninety-five percent and in
case of federally elected officials, I believe that they should be required to
complete a six-month course on the Constitution before being allowed to run for
office and failure to pass an independently prepared exam with at least a score
of ninety percent would disqualify them for that election and mandate that if they wanted to run again, they would be required to retake the six-month course and successfully past it.
I know
that most citizens would object to this, but I sincerely wonder how many
citizens could pass the citizenship test and if they at least had to study for
it, then they would be better citizens. Here is a link to just twenty
questions. Try it and see how you do. https://my.uscis.gov/en/prep/test/civics/view
100% - guess I can stay.
ReplyDeleteWonder how the president would do...
I wonder how the last two presidents would do.
ReplyDeleteMost of our presidents have been either Harvard or Yale graduates and we are $20 trillion dollars in debt. Go figure.
The qualifier for voting should not be education. Education is not a legitimate indicator of wisdom and it is also not a reliable indicator of political knowledge. The most political savvy person I ever met worked at the landfill. In my estimation, at least 80% of the population is politically ignorant at any given point in time. They are too busy with their ball games and six-pack to care about what government is doing. I have often said, “You may not want to take an interest in politics, but politics will definitely take an interest in you. Think about it the next time your taxes go up.”
I'm pretty sure POTUS 44 would ace the same test I did. His predecessor was a Yale grad, though, and you may have a point there.
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