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Had you rather more than majority & citizenship be predicates for enfranchisement in US elections?
Please provide your answer to the poll/title question along with (1) on what additional things you'd predicate enfranchisement and (2) why you'd predicate it on that/those things. Obviously, if you'd reduce the quantity of criteria for enfranchisement, your answer must be "no."
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- Yes, I had rather U.S. enfranchisement be predicated on more than majority and citizenship.
- I had rather, in addition to majority and citizenship, predicate U.S. enfranchisement on one's mastery of positive (not normative) intermediate macro and micro economics.
- Why?
- It'd force politicians and policy makers to publish far higher quality information about the economic nature of their policies.
- Voters will be far more knowledgeable about economics and will thus demand far more credible input from would-be elected office holders.
- Voters can be relied upon to fully understand and know when politicians' remarks re: the economic merits/demerits of a policy are heterodox.
- The disciplines one must master prior to learning intermediate economics provides one with tools that are very useful for understanding much besides economics.
- It'd force schools to provide a more rigorous curriculum than they currently do, for a nation cannot demand that folks have a given level of mastery at X and also not provide the instruction so people can obtain the requisite mastery.
- It'd ensure that folks have a fully rational framework for evaluating any human behavior that can be framed in terms of scarcity (most especially scarcity of time, opportunity, money, effort and/or other resources) and choice.
- It'd force politicians and policy makers to publish far higher quality information about the economic nature of their policies.
- Why?
Please provide your answer to the poll/title question along with (1) on what additional things you'd predicate enfranchisement and (2) why you'd predicate it on that/those things. Obviously, if you'd reduce the quantity of criteria for enfranchisement, your answer must be "no."
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