#tyrranyofthemajority — Public Fediverse posts
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It is one thing to lower the voting age — on the condition that our education system has truly prepared young adults to make informed decisions using taught critical thinking skills (looking around at this cohort, I fear the lessons have not been absorbed as well as they should have). It is another to blunder into classic cases of #Ageism. Guilty Mr Keane!Not only does it besmirch the idea of #democracy (just as, in other ways, positive discrimination and gender quotas do), but the idea of skewing votes by differentiating the value of a vote in accordance with some harebrained scheme such as using *years lived on the planet* as a predicate is a thin splintering wedge into our democratic institutions and systems. I’m not having any of it. And whiule I enjoy reading Mr Keane on Crickey News, this article is the germ of a shallow thinking IMO.
#AusPol #VotingAge #MandatoryVoting #PreferencialVoting #AllVotesAreEqual in a social democracy. The threat of #TyrranyOfTheMajority in any social democracy is tempered by preferencial and mandatory voting in Australia. #CivicDuties #CivicStudies #Education
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It is one thing to lower the voting age — on the condition that our education system has truly prepared young adults to make informed decisions using taught critical thinking skills (looking around at this cohort, I fear the lessons have not been absorbed as well as they should have). It is another to blunder into classic cases of #Ageism. Guilty Mr Keane!Not only does it besmirch the idea of #democracy (just as, in other ways, positive discrimination and gender quotas do), but the idea of skewing votes by differentiating the value of a vote in accordance with some harebrained scheme such as using *years lived on the planet* as a predicate is a thin splintering wedge into our democratic institutions and systems. I’m not having any of it. And whiule I enjoy reading Mr Keane on Crickey News, this article is the germ of a shallow thinking IMO.
#AusPol #VotingAge #MandatoryVoting #PreferencialVoting #AllVotesAreEqual in a social democracy. The threat of #TyrranyOfTheMajority in any social democracy is tempered by preferencial and mandatory voting in Australia. #CivicDuties #CivicStudies #Education