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"FREEDOM to VOTE!" 😍💖
Please imagine that to a framer of the United States Constitution, one way of being politically incorrect would have been discussing one's fear of ignorant voters aloud or in any print. In a new country experimenting with self-government by the vote, it would have been perceived as an insult to the masses (commoners) to say it. Long after State ratification, the discussion became safer.
So, the civil right to vote, or any mention of that, is left out of the entire United States Constitution. An age restriction of 21 to become eligible to vote (nationwide). The former was the only test possible to have some assurance to the community that people without wisdom or knowledge would not destroy the nation, States, towns, and cities. There had to be an age restriction because ninety percent of the electorate was illiterate; they could not be tested for a minimum safe degree of knowledge of our history, civics, and current events, all essential knowledge to participate in a self-run government that is sincerely chosen through an intellectual process.
Please think now about voter testing because using democracy as the intellectual process it was designed to be reading is fundamental, and now the electorate can do it.
We have all lost when a party or someone wins an election and it is later discovered that it was a wrong decision.
Here's a picture of pure ignorance in the form of violent rioters and the person who sent them. All were allowed to participate in our self-government freely, with no judgment by their community of their knowledge of what is right and true or American. On January 6 2021, they were operating on completely false assertions:
