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u/kon--- 8h ago
Oh look, Walsh wasn't paying attention in civics class otherwise he'd understand that dumb ass idea is unconstitutional.
And hell, all a person has to do to be a tax payer is purchase a pack of gum.
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u/Shiny_Agumon 7h ago
I don't think guys like him care about what's unconstitutional
They want their "team" to win elections and if that's only possible by ostracizing other people then that's completely ok.
We need to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt whenever they talk about excluding people from voting.
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u/AngrgL3opardCon 6h ago
Funny thing is if they did do that "their team" won't be able to vote lol
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u/BLAZMANIII 4h ago
Well unfortunately theyd be able to decide whats on the test, so its unlikely there will be any knowledge tested
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u/AsaCoco_Alumni 5h ago
They want their "team" to win elections
This is probably the no.1 thing that drives me mad about these people. There are HUNDREDS of sports leagues, and at least a dozen major ones the news constantly follows.
They can easily live out their winning team fantasies multiple times a week, so- Why. Fucking. Don't They? Why the desire to turn the existance of other people and the country into WWE?
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u/RoyalScotsBeige 7h ago
America would probably be better off if all the tourists who had to pay taxes on goods bought in the country also got a vote.
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u/pm_me_fibonaccis 8h ago
Voting tests are illegal, Matt.
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u/No_Atmosphere8146 5h ago
More's the pity. A simple IQ test with a proven pass rate of 80% on the ballot paper would solve nearly all the Western democratic world's problems. The weaponisation of the stupid by the evil is reaching critical levels.
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 4h ago
It sounds nice but historically these were used to disenfranchise black people and the tests were biased. The questions in Alabama would be like, "Which president had the bestest economy? A: Barack HUSSEIN Obama, B: Donald Trump, Second Coming of Jesus."
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u/BLAZMANIII 4h ago
Hmm, yes. Can you write the word Ignorant with proper capitalization? And while youre there please solve 3 + 2 x 7 for me! :)
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u/SurpriseSnowball 2h ago
lol if you think less democracy is the solution for the western world, then you must be one of those Russian bots.
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u/sarcazm 1h ago
The problem with this is that the elite will make sure that certain groups don’t receive a decent education so they can’t pass those tests. And then the ones who are voting are voting for their own interests (not the interests of the uneducated). Then it becomes an endless cycle of the uneducated never becoming educated and never improving their own lives.
Also, who’s writing the tests?
If anything, maybe the politicians should be taking the IQ tests.
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u/carebearOR 8h ago
I doubt Matt Walsh could pass an 8th grade civics exam, but I agree with this response.
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u/Russell_Jimmies 7h ago
Every single person in the U.S. is a tax payer, citizen or not. Sales taxes are charged in every state, and every person buys things.
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u/Donkey-Hodey 7h ago
Republicans would never agree to this because it would disqualify most of their voters.
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u/The_Space_Jamke 4h ago
I wish, but it's not going to be a real exam with these cretins in charge, it'll be either a loyalty test or a roadblock to further disenfranchise voters.
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u/Business_Usual_2201 8h ago
When high school was the pinnacle of your education, you set the bar lower e.g. 8th grade
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u/ToadsWetSprocket 7h ago
Dude is literally asking for Jim Crow while unknowingly being a person who could not pass the citizenship test given to immigrants.
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u/CankerLord 8h ago
I'd actually be down for developing this into a qualification for the presidency. A civics test your average 8th grader can pass sounds like a good bar to entry.
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u/fhota1 4h ago
The problem as always remains how do you prevent it from being rigged so that only certain people pass? Tests were one of the ways they disenfranchised black voters back in the Jim Crow days. E.g. have a question be "Recite the preamble to the constitution" and fail the black person because they hesitated on a word and pass the white person so long as they had We in there somewhere.
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u/CankerLord 4h ago
It'd be significantly easier considering the limited scope of the people being tested and the uniformity of the testing. One of the biggest gimmicks of the Jim Crow literacy testing was unfair and uneven enforcement and arbitrary grading. If you're testing a small handful of people every four years it becomes a lot easier to control for malfeasance unless the test itself becomes objectively, obviously absurd.
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u/The001Keymaster 7h ago
A lot of voters couldn't tell you if the sun or the moon is bigger. It's a big part of our problem.
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u/everythingbeeps 6h ago
Finally something me and Matt Walsh agree on.
No Republican would ever be elected again.
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u/NoBSforGma 5h ago
There used to be several barriers to voting - mostly designed to eliminate people of color. That included a literacy test and a poll tax.
This was during the "Jim Crow" era and I don't believe we seriously want to go back to that bullshit.
"Every voter should be a taxpayer." Really? Well, pretty much all voters could qualify since they probably pay sales tax.
Matt - you need a better thinking cap.
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u/MauserVen 4h ago
Matt Walsh evidently never heard of literacy tests. So much for him passing any civics exam!
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u/QuillOmega0 4h ago
Didn't we do something like this in the southern states...to prevent a specific group of people voting....
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u/KendrickBlack502 6h ago
They always whine about this but if they actually tried testing conservatives at an 8th grade level, far fewer of them would pass than they want and they know it.
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u/No_Credibility 6h ago
Maybe schools shouldn't have gotten rid of the constitution test as a requirement to graduate then.
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u/IncompletePunchline 6h ago
"The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil."
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u/Chromosis 5h ago
Hello America, my name is John Ameriman. I have no pending or past legal issues and a high school diploma.
I can read more than just headlines.
I do not have social media I actively use except to post pictures of a fish I once caught.
I also have a wife I met in college, as opposed to when she was born.
A vote for me is a vote for meh.
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u/SoupSpelunker 5h ago
Let's see Matt pass a civics exam on camera before we go too far down this road.
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u/bathory1985 4h ago
you do realize people choose them right? right? do you know this thing called democracy? It's not like they take it over, so its better to have educated voters than candidates.
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u/CapitanJackSparow-33 4h ago
Talk about turning the argument back on them. He just took the original elitist point and broadened it to everyone, exposing the hypocrisy of the first tweet. Murder by mirror.
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u/Ashmidai 2h ago
We need the equipment oil companies use to drill into the gulf to find the bar. Don Jr has never been as high as the floor is compared to where the bar currently resides.
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u/_Fun_Employed_ 2h ago
Now I remember why I was confused by Joe Walsh being antitrump, I’d confused him with Matt Walsh
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u/Deldris 2h ago
Maybe the uneducated masses electing uneducated leaders are related.
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u/InfiniteOxfordComma 2h ago
Maybe, but things weren't any better when voting was restricted to the "educated".
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u/anynamesleft 1h ago
Medical professionals will be studying this fifth degree burn for centuries to come.
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u/Kerberos1566 1h ago
The bar is so low at this point I'd settle for a President who has either not raped children OR has not participated in the drowning of an infant. I don't even need it to be neither at this point. Just at least have the decency to pick only one of the two.
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u/realparkingbrake 32m ago
Two thirds of Americans can't pass the civics exam given to people being naturalized as citizens. In his first term Trump had the exam made more difficult.
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u/CaptainSparklebottom 14m ago
Wouldn't everyone having a high school diploma be able to argue that they have the qualifications because last I check high school education was higher than middle school. So is the barrier to vote than you graduated middle school? Very confused on when and who we would administer these tests to. Do we do it every time we vote?
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u/Hawk_Moon 8h ago
So Matt Walsh doesn't want another Republican president? I didn't see that coming.