Today Rush was saying that he could never get elected to anything because he could never pander. I guess Snerdly must have asked him if acquiring and holding an audience wasn't similar to attracting voters.
My thought was that it would be if only people of some reasonable intellect were allowed to vote. But now we let the "useful idiots" vote; and Rush is right because he could never attract and hold such people.
ML/NJ
Can't measure "intellect" but you can measure "net taxayer" at all levels of gummint. Seems fair to have some "skin in the game".
This was why the founders originally only allowed property holders to vote. With their taxes it was felt they had a stake in the outcome of an election (remember no income tax back then). I'd like to extend that to all those who pay income taxes for the same reasons. If you're on a program or a government employee you can't vote. Under that rule I'd be ineligible until I found a job, but I'd take it over the mobocracy we currently have.