Ever watch the Jay Leno show.....he does a bit called "Jaywalking", and what it proves is that there are too many idiots roaming the streets now
that sadly have the power to vote....and they are clearly too stupid to make important decisions that will affect the entire country....
You see them at Tea Party rallies and I see them at rallies supporting Obama, either way, I get nervous every election day thinking about them....
The votes of idiots will tend to be noise that largely cancels itself out, just as an idiot will not make a 0 on a true false test, but a 50. You would have to know the right answers and intentionally choose otherwise to reliably pull off a 0. Nor will any two idiots generally obtain that 50 through the same set of wrong answers. So, as the ignorant will tend to turn in wildly different sets of random half guesses to get their 50, while the more knowledgeable will tend to submit tests that more and more closely align to the same, perfect test the more knowledgeable they are, a theoretical test taker that always went with the majority vote would, indeed, tend to get a fairly high score themselves, even if the informed were a minority, the ignorant cancel each other out and the informed reinforce one another.
It is foolishness to fret over making sure no ignorants are allowed to pollute the voting booth. For one thing, maybe they do have something to say about some subject, and shouldn't have their entire lives judged by an off hand bored response to some query from a journalist working for a mediocre comedian. And maybe you shouldn't look at the final result, which consisted of a carefully pruned dozen or so out of possibly thousands of people interviewed, and jump to the conclusion that there's hordes if stupid people out there because you didn't see any boring normal responses in the segment.
IMO, the more voices we have, the better off we are, the more people to offer their specialized knowledge or viewpoint in some area. Even if they tend to miss the dartboard elsewhere, they bring the sum total closer to true. And, besides, the so called enlightened often have their own biases anyway. We left 18-21 year old off the rolls because they weren't mature enough, lo and behold, the enlightened mature voters just happened to decide that was the perfect age group to conscript. And bougeois in the 19th century were practically obsessed with not letting the dirty proles on the roll, no, they'd take all their property. Apparently it never occurred to them that the poor old innocent propertied classes would vote themselves favorable terms, and pass rules that solidified their own position, in the abscence of these dirty proles and their clutching claws.
Snobbery is the purview of the mediocre, desperately trying to find someone to look down on due to insecurity about their own social position. It's telling that Americas become virtually obsessed with the subject lately, they simply can't get enough of reality television, where they can laugh at carefully selected and presented rubes that they can safely feel superior to.
