[fantail 1952]

"I'm all for restricting the right to vote to only those citizens who have a real stake in the country, i.e., tax payers, military personnel, and property owners"

Voting should be restricted to those who can pass a simple basic knowledge test.

All too many voters don't have a clue about anything political, particularly with today's educational system. The Founding Fathers had a strong belief in education....

Check out DeToqueville's statements on the education he found in America as compared with his home country....

[algernonpj]

The 10th plank of the Communist Manefesto = Tenth Plank: Free education for all children in public schools

[Windflier]

All too many voters don't have a clue about anything political, particularly with today's educational system.

It's no accident that so many of our citizens are as ill-informed as serfs of the feudal era, even though most have had the benefit of a free government education.

If they're clueless, it's because the government wants them to be clueless.

This is one of the primary boiling points responsible for the birth of the Tea Party.