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

  • @Linktank@lemmy.today
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    15 days ago

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

    Nobody else is allowed to vote.

    • alyaza [they/she]OPM
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      1315 days 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

      • @Linktank@lemmy.today
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        115 days 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
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          815 days ago

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

        • Zagorath
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          515 days 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.