Garbage In, Garbage Out By The Stiletto

Are some people simply too stupid, uninformed or mentally incompetent (second item) to vote? Though the very idea seems “un-American,” Jonah Goldberg, suggests that ”[m]aybe the people who don’t know the first thing about how our system works aren’t the folks who should be driving our politics, just as people who don’t know how to drive shouldn’t have a driver’s license.” Goldberg notes:

A very high percentage of the U.S. electorate isn’t very well qualified to vote, if by “qualified” you mean having a basic understanding of our government, its functions and its challenges. Almost half of the American public doesn’t know that each state gets two senators. More than two-thirds can’t explain the gist of what the Food and Drug Administration does.

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