Butthole Bandits 7 and a throwback to Jim Crowe

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Finally, someone who understands what it means to be a true citizen of a republic. Citizenship is not just rights and privileges.

I happen to agree, but these laws are meant to ensure a certain part of the "your guy" system, not to ensure responsibility

I think we should work harder to ensure responsibility. Honestly a poll tax would probably be insignificant. I only speak in favor of it because it's empty as an objection to the voter idea laws.

Possibly the only way to really improve responsible voting would be to restrict the franchise to people who are married, have kids, and are over the age of 25. Adults who are strongly invested in the countries future. I mean, I care theoretically about the public school system, but compared to someone with kids? Hell, I'm always tempted to consider it a write off.

Sasaki: you seem t believe that poor voters are more likely to be irresponsible and that a poll tax will weed out at least the most irresponsible.

That's clearly nonsense. It would merely weed out the more apathetic poor voters. Interest, as you allude to, is not equivalent to responsibility. It would only serve to further polarize the political sphere.

Apathetic voters are a crucial stabilizing core that mitigate the influence of partisans...

The thing that polarizes the political sphere is when partisans can inflate their numbers by pulling in extra voters who are apathetic enough that they don't even realize how radical the person they are voting for is.