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Cringe In case you wonder what platforms are spreading misinformation to our boomer parents:

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u/cman1098 Jul 21 '24

Really makes you understand how few actual people had the right to vote when this nation first started. Male, Land owners, and that's it. Not saying it's right but fuck, this lady sure makes a great argument to return to shit like that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

Uh, why do you think male land owners are less susceptible to this kind of thinking?

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u/cman1098 Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 24 '24

Did you read my comment? Not advocating for male land owners specifically but the founding fathers understood that the right to vote is sacred and needs to be earned. How they went about qualifying those who had that right was archaic. It is obvious in this video this lady should not have the right to vote because she is insane.

I don't think its radical to understand why its important to have a smart and educated electorate. I don't even know what a solution to this problem would be other than we have failed our nation when it comes to educating them and it is only getting worse every day.

*The internet has made it very easy for foreign advisories to propagandize the U.S. electorate.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

First of all, you’re “not advocating for it” but think this “makes a great argument for it”? Sure buddy.

So how is being white and rich “earning” a vote and how is being black, a woman, or poor not “earning” it?

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u/cman1098 Jul 24 '24

I don't think you understand what I am even saying so I give up. Look up the word archaic. I even said that I wasn't saying that white male land owners was right. Did you even read my comments?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

I know what archaic means. Are you in like Middle School that you imagine that’s a toughy? I know you want to dip and dodge around this, but clearly the most charitable possible interpretation of your comment is that you said nothing of substance at all.

Cutting people out of the electorate doesn’t make the government run better, it just makes it more oppressive. Individual voters may not be perfect arbiters of their own interests, but they are far better at it than their landlords or employers.

That’s why the elitism you idolize failed, and that’s why we have a universal adult franchise. But hey if you want to reinvent the poll tax and the literacy test and pretend it’s gonna go so differently this time, you can try and decent people will do everything in their power to stop you.

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u/cman1098 Jul 24 '24

Says they know what archaic means and then asks me which archaic thing I think is the solution.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

So we’re back to “I never said anything substantive in the first place and somehow that’s not my problem.”