jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 2 days ago
Having a test before being allowed to vote. Nothing fancy, just yes/no questions like “is water a liquid”, “is the USA in America”, “is B the fifth letter of the alphabet”, things like that, which anyone adult regardless of education level could answer correctly. This would filter out the maga portion of the republican voters and solve the problem.
Basically a literacy test, which was found to be a basic discriminatory tactic during the Civil Rights era, and you want to bring it back? But it’s okay because it’s the people that YOU hate, instead of the people THEY hate.
We don’t save Democracy by committing the same crimes that they do. Nobody hates MAGA more than I do, but that’s not the way to purge them.
Did you miss the portion that said “any adult regardless of education can answer correctly”?
That’s what they said about the Literacy Tests, too. Who decides the level of education required, and what “correctly” means? There’s a LOT of room to abuse this strategy, which is exactly why is was made illegal.
We aren’t going back to literacy tests. Move on.
Of course you aren’t, it would be undemocratic. The whole thread was about making fun of how incredibly stupid the magas are, but I guess that was not obvious to everyone
Is the earth flat?
Exactly.
People who answer yes get thrown off the edge
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Yeah… we did that. The tests were intentionally misleading, where the answer could be either of two options. The tests were only given to “certain people” and no matter what option they picked, it could be argued it was wrong.
The solution is making it EASIER to vote, not harder. Encourage people to participate and educate them. Every time you make it harder to vote, it only tips the scales to the establishment and conservatives.