A Test to Vote????
BUT,
After seeing all the blogging BS and lies floating around, it makes me wonder why an immigrant (a legal one) who decides to become a citizen of the USA has to take a test;
BUT,
To vote, which is our right as a citizen, one doesn't have to take a test to see if he has the smarts to vote or even understand the issues??
I have talked to people and researched all over (internet, books, newspapers, etc) and I have heard and read so many ignorant reasons for voting for their particular candidate ... Even to the point of voting for a candidate because of their sex, the color of their skin, based on rumors that someone tells them, or they like the candidates spouse, pet, or just plain old, "I don't know, everyone I know is?", or I didnt like the last administration so I think we need a different party ... Not understanding that the other party is a lot like the person of the party they dont like (sorry if that is confusing for some of you); or they dont understand that the majority party of congress also has a lot to do wth decisions of the administration even if the congress is an opposite party. WTF!!!!
If you cant understand what a candidate stands for; their issues and policies; what their party stands for; or if you dont have a good reason and just go on your lame excuses or fears, maybe you shouldn't vote. I doubt that many people on this site are on here for much more than jumping on a bandwagon and spewing BS; but there are a few who seem to really now what's up.
Do many of you understand that there are people who are planted in here from each party instigating bloggers to get hateful, call names, and just confuse the uninformed to vote by enticing them with lies and not fact?
Well, again, voting should be taken seriously and all the candidates and all the issues and policies and solutions should be intensely studied by each individual without prejudgement, and predisposal to one party or another, with an open-mind. If you cant do that, then maybe you shouldnt vote. It feels so much like the blind leading the blind in this election especially, to the point that I have heard liberals called conservative and vice versa!!! Go figure! That tells me that so many have no clue and are NOT voting on actuality.
It doesnt help that we do NOT have a balanced and unbiased media! They trick us into making us think like they do. If you study the media, it for the most part, grossly leans to the left, although there are few out there who lean right too. But the majority of media is very left wing. We just need to have the smarts to figure out the actual truth, since the media for the most part wont report just fact. We all need to take it upon ourselves to learn about all the issues!!!
SO WHAT IS YOUR INPUT ON THIS? SERIOUSLY, AND IF YOU WANT TO MAKE IMMATURE, UNFORMED COMMENTS ... DONT BOTHER TO INPUT ANYTHING. TAKE VOTING SERIOUSLY....ALL OF OUR LIVES ARE IN EACH VOTER'S HANDS.
TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK....
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XlntJoyce
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Very well said Jamie! Thank you!
- 3 years ago
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XlntJoyce
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JamieGray
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In a democracy, voting is a right. Once, only landowners who were white and male could vote. Testing of voters would do nothing more than create another way in which discrimination could take form...and could therefore further dilute the spirit of freedom.
I would love it if only intelligent people were allowed to make decisions which affect the entire country, but unfortunately the intelligent electorate is a significant minority in relationship to the public at large.
To maintain freedom, even the fools must be allowed to participate. However, the responsibility rests on the shoulders of the informed and educated to provide those simpler folks with accurately simplified information--and not distorted, biased, and polarized bull crap.
Someday soon we will likely face the consequences for the bastardization of our democratic values in the name of greed and power. Until then, the voice of even the simplest and dumbest must be heard.
Ironically, sometimes the least intelligent of us has a better grip on the truths and issues than the rest. Everyone should participate, and all voices must be heard.
- 3 years ago
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JamieGray
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XlntJoyce
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Not my test... am just putting a question out there to see response to it.... There are a lot of people voting w/out really knowing what they are voting for. Sex, or race shouldnt be the reason to vote or not vote for someone.
- 3 years ago
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XlntJoyce
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mo1y
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Yo Dude, you're trying to pull one over aren't you.
First of all no one has to take a test to vote, not even an immigrant who has become a naturalized citizen.
Immigrants must taking test to become citizens since the Republic began.
They even have to Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States.
Your blog is the biggest bunch of bull. You took a fact, that immigrants must take a test to become a citizen, and distorted it into immigrants must take a test to vote.
Once they take the test, and Pledge Allegiance, then they can vote.
- 3 years ago
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mo1y
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XlntJoyce
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mo1y:
No... am not saying immigrants should take a test to be allowed to vote....I'm talking about everyone ... just a test to see what one knows. I see people voting and not knowing why... This is only my point. I understand why we arent tested ... its a freedom, a right to vote. But it just amazes me what I am seeing and hearing from so many people that the reasons they are voting for a candidate is because of race, sex, etc and not because of being informed of what a candidate stands for.
- 3 years ago
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XlntJoyce
