good idea/bad idea, necessary democratic reform or authoritarian imposition? are there better or worse ways to do it?

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
    11·
    3 months ago

    Mandatory voting, for people who have passed a morality test, and a competency test.

    Nobody else is allowed to vote.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
      13·
      3 months ago

      for people who have passed a morality test

      i don’t see how this is even theoretically tenable considering what is “moral” is entirely subjective and largely nonfalsifiable

    • CameronDev
      12·
      3 months ago

      You really don’t want tests to prevent voting. They will be used entirely for voter supression.

      • Linktank@lemmy.today
        11·
        3 months ago

        Yeah because there’s definitely no voter suppression going on already. Let’s make sure the dregs of society can share their dumbass opinions when things come to a general vote.

        • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
          8·
          3 months ago

          That’s a false equivalence. Building up society as a whole is better than trying to determine “the most relevant” voices.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zone
          5·
          3 months ago

          I suspect the people who would set this test would be the exact opposite of the people you want to set this test, in more than 50% of the seats.