Interesting.
So if voting was compulsory in America, I know, i know a contentious point but IF it was would America see a big step towards a more Social government and society?
no...actually i think it would be close. 75% of this country is bat shit insane...and that's no joke, it's my real, heartfelt personal observation, from traveling a lot when i as younger, and now living in a tourist area where we get people from all over the country. crazy trumptard are just the icing on the cake, many people who seem "normal" aren't normal at all if you bother to talk to them for a minute of two.
Some people here want socialism, but aren't intelligent enough to know thats what they're saying they want. if you call it socialism, they'll get offended and tell you they aren't communist....no, you're a socialist...they want it, but don't even know what it's called, and think it's totalitarian communism, which also isn't what they perceive it to be.
i had a chat with a group of young people in the parking lot of the grocery store. they were ffa kids in town for a convention, and i heard one of them call democrats socialist, in a disparaging way. i asked him if he knew what socialism really was, and he described communism. i told him that that was communism, and that socialism was kind of like communism lite....communist don't actually own anything, the government owns ALL property, and allow you the use of it, where socialism allows for private property, only industrial production is communally owned, and overseen by a democratically elected government, and that almost universally, communism comes with a violent overthrow of the preceding government, while socialist hardly ever resort to anything beyond the democratic process. i told them (ideally) communism rewards everyone equally, whether they actually do anything productive or not, while socialism rewards people based on their individual contributions to the economy. They were all looking at me like i was insane...that's not what our teacher told us...yeah, well, teachers are people, and they can make mistakes, and apparently your teacher is misinformed, and is passing that misinformation on...do your own reading.
the point being...people are fucking stupid and too lazy to inform themselves...sitting in a comfortable chair, in an air conditioned room, reading information from reputable websites is too much work for 90% of them...they have no idea what they're actually supporting, or condemning, or why they're doing either one, they listen to established authority figures, who apparently aren't much better informed than they are, and who may be pushing personal agendas which are entirely inappropriate to be teaching anyone, no matter their age.
so if you REQUIRED all of them to vote, who the fuck knows what would happen, because most of them have no idea what it is they're voting for, which is why i'd like to see some kind of basic requirements before people are allowed to vote
