This is one of the reasons voting was at first restricted to those of maturity. Once, potential voters weere not allowed to register without proof of land ownership. Too bad they fucked this up, about two centuries ago.
Owning a plot of land, your OWN FUCKING LAND, changes ones perspective and encourages one to consider more thoroughly the future consequences of the high pressure political issues of the voting day.
There is much more to it than bills or hardons.
Kind of elitist, don't you think? "Owning" land has not changed me one bit politically.
it was an ancient idea that did not work ... read history, asshole!
It was also meant as a reminder to any who have forgotten the grave responsibility we all hold at the polls.
Those who think that voting with their hormones, influenced by some fucked up state THEY have put THEMSELVES into, makes THEM more wholesome than someone, well read, up-to-the-moment-in-politics, who has spent a great deal of time and effort understanding the law and the reasons for this particular vote being critical to all of us or are somehow more involved or are more anti-elitist or are anything other than a fucking bag of idiots, then go ahead and call us, who have much more to lose than a missed wank or two, Elitist.
If informed voting makes me Elitist, then so be it. I AM elitist!
The voters who actually comprehend the issues these days are unfortunately few and people who emotionally jack-off-in-a-tissue to divine their voting strategy are not worth our time.
... this is why they had such a tough time agreeing on who should have the right to vote, early on.
