Quote:Don't see a real problem here.


Obama isn't trying to pass a law to make voting mandatory.  He's just saying that it'd be a solution to low voter turnout.

 

I don't think mandatory voting would lead to any more of a 'rule by the uninformed' than we already have.  The fact is that we have Super Pac's now feeding people information, along with pundits.  And pundits and Super Pacsare all most voters listen to.  Most people who vote now are the uninformed.  Money has too much control in politics.  


Even the people who consider themselves 'informed' aren't really informed.  They listen blindly to their party, and go along with whatever they say.  They attack the opposing party for doing the same things their party did, and praise their party for things they attacked the opposing party for.

I'd say more than half the country doesn't know the name of their state reps.  I doubt most people can name them, even after they voted for them.  And do you know why that is?  Because a lot of candidates run unopposed.  That's right.  You have people who are running against nobody.  People ignore what they do most of the time.  That's because they tend to pass a lot of bills (as opposed to the federal government, which passes few by comparison)


I don't think voting should be mandatory, but I don't think it's a democracy killing idea.  I think it's a plutocracy killing idea.  It's not one that would necessarily work however.

 

No it's not a democracy killing idea, it's a democracy take over and democracies never last. We're a constitutional republic, the day we shift over completely to a democracy the countdown begins. In a democracy the mob rules, if we had compulsory voting you'd never have had the civil rights movements or women voting or heck even a declaration of independence.

 

History is full of examples where a mob rules democracy would've drastically hindered our ability to not only sustain but thrive. The reality is our founding fathers set up a system where the public is represented but not expected to participate in the day to day functions of government, nor was government meant to interact with our day to day functions. What compulsory voting does is take the responsibly uninformed voter and by force of government, making them choose from one of the above. Not voting is just as powerful of a voice as voting, sometimes non-compliance IS the solution, Obama is proposing to eliminate that option.

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