Losing respect for Rand Paul

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Meh, I'd just go ahead and be a criminal, whenever I wanted to, if voting were made a law.

I think the point is that you fine people if they don't vote... so you don't have to, but it gets much, much higher turnout.

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So would you support mandatory voting? In my opinion it makes sense in a way of getting a better and more balanced sample of the population, but then it seems like more of a surface solution to a much deeper problem of people not caring and being informed about issues.

Making uninformed idiots vote will have only marginal effect on the out come.  All it will do is to ensure more money will be spent on deceptive pandering and disinformation prior to the election.

The lack of high minded sense of civic responsibility is really the fundamental ill.

I agree. But do you think Trump would have been elected with mandatory voting? I'd wager that the people who don't care would have voted the other way. It can weaken extremist candidates.