"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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"thunder" wrote in message

Geez guy, if you don't like democracy, move. Why shouldn't those
"disinterested, uninformed, and unproductive segments" have the right
to
vote?

I never said they shouldn't.

Perhaps, by taking the effort to register, they would
become less disinterested, more informed, and more productive.

Doubtful. If they were interested, they would already be participants.
This is just the modern day version of the Dem machines of the 1930s,
wherein ward hacks would ride around on election day and gather up all
the
bums they could find, slip each one a finn, drive him to the polls, and
tell
him "Vote for Curley".


You may not
like it, but it is a fundamental concept to democracy, all votes
*should*
count.

I don't dislike it at all, and again, I never said these votes shouldn't
count. I merely point out that the Dems don't give 2 ****es about these
folks until they need 20 or 30,000 votes some year, then they ramrod a
huge
voter drive and promptly drop things after the election. Dems want to
own
issues, not resolve them.

But of course, this country is not a democracy......rather it is a
consitutionally limited republic.

Furthermore, I am not necessarily in favor of letting everyone vote.....I
think that you need to have a vested interest.......i.e. only property
owners should vote on whether to increase property taxes.