IQ threshold is dangerous because while right now it's relatively reliable, they would just change the parameters and people who were good at virtue signaling and fluent in ebonics would suddenly have average scores of 170. A part of me does think there should be a barrier to voting though. I think if your family tree extends back to a certain point of being US citizens, you're a veteran or active duty military, no violent crimes on record, etc.
I think the electoral college was a good idea, but I don't think it's future-proof. The more I age and interact with people of all types the less I believe that everybody should have the right to vote. It sounds good in a touchy feely way, but when you consider that half of the population is far dumber than the average person it's kind of terrifying. Throw birthright citizenship into the mix and we have a system that is extremely vulnerable to being taken advantage of. People are already more or less voting along racial lines save for outliers, thankfully immigration has been curbed massively with increased border security and covid being used to end immigration "temporarily" (hopefully permanently for the most part, never at levels it was previously at). At the rate it was going it was only a matter of 10-20 years before the country was more or less battling through their vote as to what race America serves. Not familiar enough with the numbers, but I'm still not letting my guard down, immigration needs to stay extremely low or at zero and conservatives need to be fucking like rabbits and teaching their kids proper values and how to shoot.
IQ threshold is dangerous because while right now it's relatively reliable, they would just change the parameters and people who were good at virtue signaling and fluent in ebonics would suddenly have average scores of 170. A part of me does think there should be a barrier to voting though. I think if your family tree extends back to a certain point of being US citizens, you're a veteran or active duty military, no violent crimes on record, etc.
I think the electoral college was a good idea, but I don't think it's future-proof. The more I age and interact with people of all types the less I believe that everybody should have the right to vote. It sounds good in a touchy feely way, but when you consider that half of the population is far dumber than the average person it's kind of terrifying. Throw birthright citizenship into the mix and we have a system that is extremely vulnerable to being taken advantage of. People are already more or less voting along racial lines save for outliers, thankfully immigration has been curbed massively with increased border security and covid being used to end immigration "temporarily" (hopefully permanently for the most part, never at levels it was previously at). At the rate it was going it was only a matter of 10-20 years before the country was more or less battling through their vote as to what race America serves. Not familiar enough with the numbers, but I'm still not letting my guard down, immigration needs to stay extremely low or at zero and conservatives need to be fucking like rabbits and teaching their kids proper values and how to shoot.