On 7/8/09 5:53 PM, "Charles Haynes" <charles.hay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not difficult to imagine, what is difficult to imagine is that it > will improve things. Literacy requirements (for example) have been > tried in the past. The actual effect is to disenfranchise minorities > and lower classes (even more than before.) > > Further, once a privileged class gets into power it's rare that they > relinquish it voluntarily. So your "at least for a few years" is a > chimera. Old people want to restrict the vote to "more mature" voters. > Rich people want to restrict the vote to "self sufficient" or > "propertied" voters. Technical people want to restrict the vote to > "educated" voters. Incumbents want to restrict the vote to "generous" > voters. Isn't this what exactly brahmins were doing in Indian Bureaucracy till about 20 years ago (or probably are still doing in some areas)?
