(February 2, 2018 at 1:34 pm)shadow Wrote:(February 2, 2018 at 1:32 pm)Khemikal Wrote: 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.
(February 2, 2018 at 1:33 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: 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.
Perhaps not. But we should not too narrowly tailor solution to the specific circumstances surrounding the symptom of trump, and not coordinate the solution to the much deeper and more widespread rot that would otherwise ensure america’s Downward trajectory into the ground long after trump himself becomes worm shit.
