Sneaky little asteroid...

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I listen to GeoFee and his talk of Socrates, and ponder that "democracy" was a failure in both ancient Greece and Rome, in much small environments than we try to do it today, and wonder why we can't come up with some sort of better system. Are we stalled in the first century, forever?
 
I'm sure this sounds elitist, but what if, the more points you could score on a "universally agreed upon" political awareness quiz, the more votes you got?
 
I'm sure this sounds elitist, but what if, the more points you could score on a "universally agreed upon" political awareness quiz, the more votes you got?
At first I thought, yeah...well maybe?...but then...No. Because who designs the test? And wouldn’t people get to vote on whether it’s universally agreed upon? I can see how that could be corrupted and exploited. Kind of like IQ tests are.


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What ever the good intentioned plan to support the will to do anything ... bet on an entire opposing gang! Something to live with in a sad state that may impact you as odd and funny ... sometimes people are too overwhelmed to learn of allegory and thus the void ... straight up the bottom of the cup, keg or grail ... that emptied feeling ... of the restraining law ... something to filter out! Life increases until curtailed ... it is dog Maw ...
 
At first I thought, yeah...well maybe?...but then...No. Because who designs the test? And wouldn’t people get to vote on whether it’s universally agreed upon? I can see how that could be corrupted and exploited. Kind of like IQ tests are.


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What if it was designed by a arms-length team that included representation from an identified group of communities? Say, departments of Political Science, Amnesty International, etc.?
 
What if it was designed by a arms-length team that included representation from an identified group of communities? Say, departments of Political Science, Amnesty International, etc.?
Maybe. But it would have to be designed by those who have lived where, or have been affected by, the geopolitics in question that is being asked about.

What I think it would do is lessen voter participation from people who need representation, even more. It would lessen the vote from folks from poorer communities - who are not stupid but disadvantaged - not to mention those with test anxiety or aversions to bureaucracy,



Voter education. Town halls. Those things are good but putting up road blocks to individuals voting isn’t. We have to get to a place where there are no people on the slate who are terribly corrupt. It’s the candidates that need screening and vetting before running because they will have power. It’s not the voters who already experience the power differential. Screen the candidates not the voters!
 
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I so wish Trump had been investigated while he ran for office and before. Hillary too. But he shouldn’t have been allowed to happen. He wouldn’t even have passed a test like you proposed @BetteTheRed.


Back to sneaky asteroids...






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What would happen if churches banded together to convene All Candidates Meetings for all elections, which questions rooted in community social justice issues?
 
What would happen if churches banded together to convene All Candidates Meetings for all elections, which questions rooted in community social justice issues?

The Conservatives would stop showing up, on order from head office, for starters. I know our former CPC MP, who also ran provincially but lost to the NDP, was terrible for ducking these things or just parroting what her leader said.
 
Maybe that would help in places. But what about non-christians? There’s a whiff of colonialism about having it in churches. They should be held at community centres, school gyms, university lecture halls if possible. And what does this have to do with asteroids?




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