We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate

> Of course, we also must remember the ugly history of poll taxes and other prejudicial methods that Americans used to deny black citizens their equal right to vote.

Weird how remembering this only ate up a single sentence here. You'd think somebody who clearly thinks he's brilliant would, I dunno, make more than a nod at the fact that poll taxes and literacy tests were used for roughly a century to keep poor black people from voting.

Wait, sorry, what I meant to say was "What an asshole."

If you're going to discriminate people based on how educated their decision is, is it knowing the system itself that critical? That's like saying we shouldn't allow people with deep hardware knowledge to write software.

What if you don't know the items he mentions, but have a great economy insight? Or social?

Another despot apprentice.

Education and civic knowledge are key ingredients for self governance. The current 'cool to be ignorant' era is a threat to self governance. I'm afraid we're doomed to suffer the consequences of our ignorance. History continues to repeat itself and I suppose we can take solace knowing that someday we'll realize what we lost and fight to get it back. I just hope that someday we learn it's a lot easier to keep it than it is to lose it and get it back. Then the human race will have truly evolved.