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Permalink Reply by Aric on February 15, 2010 at 2:09am

I posted a discussion similar to this a while back about why people tend to vote against their own best interests. While I do agree that people who can't name the three branches of government have no business voting, I don't think doing away with democracy in exchange for a geniocracy or noocracy is the right answer. Instead of forbidding ignorant people from voting or holding office, we should attempt to educate people so they are capable of making informed, logical decisions. I believe that adding critical thinking classes to each state's curriculum and promoting reading outside of the classroom would greatly increase the intelligence of the country. Of course, that's just wishful thinking.

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