I also firmly believe in mandatory voting. Make it a national holiday or something. Also make sure that there are essentially 'abstain/no vote' options for each thing being voted on.

No because we would all be kicked out and all the colleges professors would be in charge haha trust me i have this conversation in one of my government classes

...huh?

Comprehensive tests to vote would be like getting citizenship

That really doesn't make any sense to me

The only people that really know about the constitution, the bill of rights, DOC, and etc and be able to pass the test would be people who have studied history and government

...I was talking more about something like "Candidate A favors what policy?" followed by a list of various policies, one of which is the correct answer.

Is rep streaming tonight ? I got paid and I wanna sub to this man.

Yes but think about it you know what your answer will be probably isn’t the answer you were looking for 😅

I mean, it'd be stuff that'd be easily accessible. Like, info pulled straight from a campaign website

And it's not like the test would be secret either, or even particularly lengthy

I mean that could work you have an amazing idea! You’ll just have to develop it more and work the bugs out

It is a pretty rough concept, but I can't think of anything else that would help deal with this national crisis of voter apathy.

Like i said you have an amazing idea think through it more and come up with everything!

Voting def should be at 18 but i think that by law the majority of politicians should be young. I dont want an old man fuck up.my future

So i had this crazy idea pop up in my mind, now it might be because of not getting any sleep in three days, but what if i went into Onion boy’s discord and just see what his cult.... i mean fan base is up to? Haha probably a stupid idea 😅

You'd probably lose what precious few functioning brain cells you have left 😂

Also... mandatory voting would be great. Croatia will have ones in the future and you have to pay a fine if you dont vote

But imo there should be an option on the voting list to choose neutral.

Exactly

I have family friends who live in the capital

Of Croatia

Oh im in the capital rn

The problem with mandatory voting is that then uneducated people that know nothing about the candidates just vote for anyone

True.. but i really dislike when people say that they didnt vote on purpoae

Purpose

Like I said, you'd have a brief test to make sure you understand the issues and candidates being voted on

Who or what you actually vote for is irrelevant, so long as you can show comprehension

Yeah, idk how to get more people interested in voting. It's weird that people take it for granted that they live in a place where you even have the ability to vote, since a lot of people in the world don't get that option.

Make it mandatory, and make it a national holiday

Or hell, make it a whole week if you have to

Yes a week! I couldnt vote for europarlamwnt because i was not home

With today's tech, you could easily make some kind of app or something

If anyone here has a interest in philosophy id like to look into atheist philosophers who have arguments against thomas aqunias doctrine

Philosophy is a fun topic

I had a discussion about it with my bf so we both are really interested to know about counter arguments

Yesss!!

I like philosophy especially platos cave and thomas aqunias

Granted it's been awhile since I've studied the stances of any philosopher or the details of any given philosophy

Its never too late to start over. Im quite disappointed i didnt study marx or nietzsche (however you spell it)

...I just realized I graduated high school nearly a decade ago. I feel old ;.;