Sensible Proposition: Smart Voters Only

Folks, after considerable thought, I regrettably have decided that stupid people shouldn't vote. Again, I come to this decision regrettably, but I've come to realize that our democracy depends on it.

There could be lot's of ways to determine an individuals stupidity: we could go by SAT scores; we could use IQ; we may even consider family history. It seems to me that these are relatively arbitrary measures of one's smarts. I believe a flat smart standard should be applied that is based purely on income. After all, there are plenty of individuals with high test scores who don't have any money. Now in all honesty, of what good is such intelligence if it cannot be converted into the objective basis of existence: money? Clearly, none at all. Money-making is the only true measure of smarts.

But how much money makes one among the ranks of the smart? This is where our social engineers will have to think hard, but I would estimate that an annal income of one million or a net worth of over 5 million should be the starting point.

Of course, stupid people will probably take exception to this proposition, but we cannot pander to lowest common denominator. This pandering is what has got us in the position we're in today. Some may argue that such a proposition is elitist, but if smart and elitism are synonymous then so be it. We'll let the philosophers decide, but we people of action cannot idly sit by why the morons have their benighted way.

Now before one concludes that my thinking is out of line, I content that this is precisely what happened this week when Congress voted for the bailout. The smart people, that would be all the governors of European banks and the heads of Wall St, insisted that Congress and Senate not fall prey to the stupid masses by listening to them.

Individuals working for Wall Street finance, insurance and real estate companies and the companies’ political action committees have contributed more than $47 million to the campaigns of Senator Obama (three of top five sources) and Senator McCain (top five sources), both of whom voted for the bailout.

More to the point, Wall Street has contributed more than $1.1 billion dollars to congressional candidates since 2002. Nine of the top ten House recipients of Wall Street largesse, who each received an average of $1.5 million, are on the financial oversight and taxation committees.

Even more telling, the bipartisan Congressional "leaders" most responsible for pushing the bailout through Congress, Senators Dodd and Gregg and Representatives Frank and Blunt have taken almost $20 million from Wall Street sources during the last 20 years. Dodd recently received $6 million in contributions during his presidential primary campaign, and Frank has collected $720,000 this year.

You can go here for more. The fact is that Congress does precisely this.