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

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

Nobody else is allowed to vote.

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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

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You really don’t want tests to prevent voting. They will be used entirely for voter supression.

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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.

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

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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.

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Oh, and a tax

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