by Stanley Hendrix

Created on: May 13, 2009

POLITICAL IQ

Call me crazy but I don't think people should be able to vote unless they are smart enough to vote. I'm not talking about book smart; I'm talking about politically smart. There are people that might have an IQ of 150 and only have a political IQ of . . . lets say 70. There are people with an IQ of 70 and have a political IQ if 150. This can be seen by the way some people choose the person they want to vote for.

Candidate A is handsome, or pretty, depending on their gender, and candidate B is ugly (with ugly, it doesn't matter what gender). Candidate A is going to win 80 percent of the time. I've based this on the fact that it just is. OK OK OK, I made up the percentage, but you're ether with me on this, or you're not, OK.

There are those that still buy it when a candidate says he's going to make a difference, when anyone with half a political mind knows one man cannot make a difference. The only way a difference can be made is if all the politicians are on the same page. When was the last time that happened? And of course there is the very popular "I'm all about change." Again one man is not going to change anything. Everybody else has to change too before anything is going to change, and what's the odds of that happening.

What kind of political I. Q. do the people of Louisiana have, that kept reelecting Edwin Edwards after he told them that he had taking kick backs, maybe a 50. "May yeah, I took da money, I'm not gonna told you no lie," is what Governor Edwards told the people that elected him. They said, "Well at least he didn't lie to us," and they reelected him. Of course he's in prison now. Maybe when he gets out, he can run for an office again. I think he would win.

Now if you go up to Washington, D.C., all that needs to be said is Marion Shepilov Barry Jr. Now of all the places in the country, you would think Washington, D.C. would be more knowledgeable, but they reelected Mr. Barry that had just got out of jail for a drug crime committed during the last term he served as Mayor. I think I would give these people a (P. I. Q.) of 40.

I don't think there should be any political discrimination in who can vote. If you're politically smart enough to vote, you should be able to vote. Well that is except for age discrimination, I don't think I want a 10-year-old voting. And that's not to say that there aren't some 10-year-olds that could make just as well of an informed decision as the people that are voting now, but it would look bad

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