ABC's John Stossel: Some People Shouldn't Vote

After a 20/20 Special, a lot of people were outraged...and a lot of people nodded their head in agreement.

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[rationalCrash]

you obviously haven't listened to or thought about anything he's said. He's libertarian, the exact opposite of the corporatism, fascism that the democrats and republicans implement.

[danbuck333]

actually hes the only reporter/presenter i know of who is for freedom and liberty, so you must be either stupid or ignorant

[NethayrusShadowblood]

This appears to be a part of the problem, but in my opinion, there is a second part to it: Not enough politicians come from a science background. If you have somebody who is really passionate about science, he won't be studying law or how to lead people. This leaves politicians painfully undereducated in scientific questions, leading to poor decisions in things pertaining science (as a recent example, take SOPA, which any computer scientist would not like to see implemented (DNS instability))

[mad3moyer]

I have no problem with where Stossel stands here. He's not encouraging a law, or a test to allow someone to vote. He's saying "Look, if you don't actually know what you are voting for, maybe you shouldn't just vote to say you voted." What annoys me is that there is clearly a Republican agenda (which he tries to disguise) here. All the questions/photo surveys are done with very young people, who we all know tend to be more Democrat voters. Let's see these same tests with a 75+ group.

[psovegeta]

@gunslinger072 If stupid people didn't vote, most people wouldn't run. Liked how he said how easy it was to vote in Florida 2:56 , dead people loved W.Bush so much that they rose from the grave to vote...either that for Gov.Jed Bush was a necromancer. But I knew a girl who voted for Obama because she thought he was cute. Not exactly what I consider to be responsible statesmanship. Some people are voting for "Christian" conservatives who have the same financial backers as Obama.

[perdondaris]

If you pay sales taxes then you should vote. Everyone pays sales taxes therefore everyone should vote.

[LexNaturalis1982]

@perdondaris Easy. Do it the way james Madison advocated at the Constitutional Convention. If you dont pay taxes then you dont vote. Anyone who has the right to not pay taxes and votes essentially are telling the government where to put everyone elses money. And what do democrat voters tell the government to put other peoples money? In their welfare check so that they can continue to be ignorant voters. No one who is sibsidized by the government can vote their conscious.

[SaudaraLink]

Some people who don't pay attention may self-select out of voting?

[belolacove]

Rationalizing anything he says with "he's libertarian" doesn't automatically make what he says libertarian. John Stossel is a man, not an ideal. It takes more than pointing at a label to explain why someone says what they say.

[belolacove]

How about, instead of closing people off from the process because of their ignorance, we educate people to become better voters? Dropping out of the process just makes it more insular and easily corrupted.

[yami700thumper]

I feel ya johnny boy, i feel ya....

[gunslinger072]

Well...there is never going to be a test you have to pass before you can vote. The stupid and uninformed will always be allowed to vote. However...if the stupid and uninformed were NOT voting...no liberal would ever be elected again.