Limiting the franchise: a proposal by Lawrence Auster

When I raised the same topic a few months ago in a more tentative fashion, I pointed out that the mission statement of this website is to look at our society from the point of view of the "traditionalist, politically incorrect Right." By definition, the traditionalist Right does not subscribe to modern indiscriminate notions of equality. A Right that simply accepts, without question, the universal suffrage of all persons, including women, wards of the state, felons, persons with sub-normal intelligence, and 18 year olds, is not a serious Right. Furthermore, many destructive trends have been unleashed in the modern world by extreme notions of equality that are incompatible with a healthy and truly free social order.

Here then is a proposal suggested by a friend recently, the basic principle and outline of which make a great deal of sense to me. I am not embracing the specific details, since a variety of means to obtain the same ends are possible. But to me the basic idea seems compelling.

The franchise, my friend said, should be limited to married men with children who are net tax payers.

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