Earning the Vote

[Ravenshire]

People are fools, are you really surprised when they act accordingly?

You cannot educate the ignorant, look at the population of trumptardia, if you harbor any doubts.

Wouldn't that be a good argument for limiting voting by a set of criteria?

NO!

Any set of criteria you set can be twisted and leveraged by those in power to disenfranchise blocks of voters who would vote them out, or at least attempt to. Once you draw a line in the sand, you can move it, change it, obfuscate it... We've seen first hand, in this country, how tests for voting can be abused.

Proponents of tests to prove an applicant’s ability to read and understand English claimed that the exams ensured an educated and informed electorate. In practice they were used to disqualify immigrants and the poor, who had less education. In the South they were used to prevent African Americans from registering to vote. The Voting Rights Act ended the use of literacy tests in the South in 1965 and the rest of the country in 1970.

(my emphasis) Link

As much as I wish the Trumpists would choose not to vote, I have no interest whatsoever in forcibly stopping them from doing so.