Should Democracy Be Compulsory?

Of course, that's how media works. the actual issue is: Should voting be compulsory?
As if voting is the means and ends of democracy. Our ancestors have made great sacrifices to allow you to take no particular interest in the skills of the touched-up photographs you use as a base for deciding your pown future - and STILL live a sheltered life.

So here are the positions:

• No - because you can't force people to be free.
• Yes - because some people vote mroe than others, so distribution is not fair.
• Abolish elections - saves everyone a lot of time.

(Guess which of the suggestions was made by my brother Bill)

Well, that's easy. We won't come to your door and beg you for your vote. If watching two seasons of "Six and a Kitty" end-to-end on election day is more important to you than voting for me, I don't want your vote.

If it was me, I'd make voting harder. You'd have to solve a tricky math question that involves percents and fractions. You'd have to climb a rope or lift some weights, or help a old lady carry that piano to her new apartment. You'd have to know the leaders and the economy of our neighbor countries. You would have to pass tests, and to help out in your community to just earn your personal right to vote.

In turn, we'd celebrate you. You'd get the best seats at the yearly soccer match against the Tivertonian Devils. You'd be the guy to hold the opening speech for the new and improved purification plant in your community. Ladies would smile at you. Hotly. It would be awesome.

Because you value things more when they are harder to achieve. I want you to be ambitous, to have goals in your life.

So, it's 1.