USA - A Backsliding Democracy

. You and DoubleR advocate for remove the cooling down period for voting and with the same breath lament the amount of people responding and voting due to "anger politics"

We have a right to own a firearm too but we sensibly know that removing the cooldown periods to buy one to prevent people from making long lasting snap decisions in anger would be foolish and socially irresponsible. A convenient vote in anger is even more catastrophic because the government has much more power to take life than any one individual and the impacts can last beyond any one individual's life for generations.

If you are flippant with people opting out of Democracy, I find it equally weird that you do not think it fundamentally weakens it.

 And frankly equating the right to vote with the right to bear arms seems quite a false equivalence to me.

I value quality over quantity. Is that wrong? I'd rather have voters who care enough about voting to make an effort instead of excuses.

Here is where we part ways. To continue to believe the lies DC says about the faults of the public can only end in civil war, and I would rather that happen after I am dead.

Our politicians are a reflection of us, and what we care about they will focus on. It’s not DC that needs fixing, it’s us.

100 million people disagree.

This is why you are unserious to talk to

the politicians are the very people that we sent there to represent us. That’s a fact, would you like to address it?

but the solution is not to hand someone the keys...

You speak like someone who has never been abused by the government. Congratulations on your privilege.

BTW, the government has perpetuated more "gun violence" than all private Americans collectively. 

RIght, because everyone knows most people referring to gun violence are talking about military engagements. 

And you speak like some college dropout who blames the government for all his problems. 

This is why you are unserious to talk to

That, and not the part where this guy says voting is more harmful to America at large than gun violence? I guess spoiled for choice. :)

Look at his response to me in post 100.

I gave you a whole two paragraph argument about how it’s not your place or anyone else’s to decide what qualifies any US citizen as sufficiently educated or motivated enough to vote, 

voting being accessible and made as easy as possible for all citizens.

That's the very definition of unregulated voting.

I'd imagine even if they were to somehow charge all 500 for felony insurrection on Jan 6 you would be scrambling to remove the barriers that might prevent them from voting even though they actively destroyed your democracy.

What a ridiculous cross to die on, a right to vote free from ANY government interference in ALL cases.

That's the result of unregulated voting. Chaos and deregulation of any sensible rule to ensure a fair election system.

 Of course practicality is taken into account.

Someone who cannot make their own decisions, not ok to vote.

If you are going to respond to anything I have to say in this post respond to this; the way we deal with ignorance and/or malice within our voting population is to drown out those individuals with educated or well intentioned voters. And if that doesn’t work because the population at large is ignorant or malicious enough to put “the wrong” politician in office then we get the government we deserve. We are all subject to the same laws and governed by the same authorities, therefore everyone gets a say in what that governing authority should look like.

That’s not rhetoric, that’s not left wing talking points, that’s not propaganda, it’s the most basic idea of democracy.