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Get out the vote?
Get out the vote? Plenty of media attention is given to trying to increase voter turnout. To rope in more people at the polls, especially the younger crowd. It seems that there is a lot of thought put into how to get more people to vote, without much thought being put into whether those people should be voting. I am not suggesting that voting should be restricted to some arbitrarily qualified citizens, but that maybe the people who aren’t voting aren’t participating because they don’t have the desire to get educated on the matters at hand. And do we really want those people making the decisions? If people have little desire to educate themselves about the candidates, it seems they would have even less desire to contemplate a logical position to take for themselves on what would be for the good of the country, based outside of purely self serving possibilities. There have even been proposals to pay people to vote. I don’t want my future being determined by someone who was coerced into making a choice through bribery. The only people that strategy would draw in, are people who are probably less qualified than anyone to help guide our country. ... more

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