Quick, who is the head of the Federal Reserve?
If you can't answer that, don't vote. If you can't tell me what the Federal Reserve does (or, more likely, have never heard of the Federal Reserve), don't vote.
Don't know who your Senators are? Don't vote. Your Congressman? Stay at home Election Day. The nine Supreme Court Justices? What the Supreme Court even does? Don't vote.
Don't know who the President is? Um...I'm not worried about you voting, just stay in your cave without Internet access. Actually, come to think of it, how are you reading this?
These are not particularly difficult questions; in fact, they are asking basic matters of fact about the composition of our government. If you cannot answer everything of the above, I'm quite serious, you are not qualified to be making decisions about our government. This doesn't even bring into question the strengths and weaknesses of particular ideologies. Just flat out facts.
Democracy: rule of the ignorant.
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