A viral clip from 2021 shows Donald Trump’s running mate hyping an antidemocratic plan once pushed in Hungary that would give people with children more voting power.
  • protistEnglish
    53·
    5 months ago

    By this logic, people’s voting power should depend on their age, and people with terminal illnesses should have no vote. Incredibly dystopian

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      310·
      5 months ago

      There have been many suggestions around such things.

      We already have a system that disenfranchises people, based on where they live, the entire federal Senate for example, each state gets 2 senators regardless of it’s population. Puerto Rico gets zero, and yet they’re US citizens who have to pay federal taxes.

      How is this suggestion worse than those?

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        I thought you peaked with “involuntary slavery is compatible with democracy”, but this might be worse.