And I know that Al Gore sold his yes vote on the Gulf War to the highest bidder which turned out to be the Republicans, who promised him 20 minutes of TV face time for his speech. Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, now director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, denounced Gore s stunt when he had his turn on the Senate floor for that vote in 1991. And he reminded everyone of this little historical nugget on CNBC s Hardball with Chris Matthews the other night. I realize that some people have kids to raise, marriages to cultivate, and episodes of Who Wants To Be A Million-aire to watch. But frankly, some people are so ignorant that they shouldn t be voting.
Most people are too ignorant to responsibly cast a ballot.
The proof is all around us. We are a few weeks from narrowing the presidential field down to two candidates, yet, according to The Associated Press, four out of 10 Americans say they are paying no attention to the campaigns not even on the mind-numbing evening news. That prompted pollster John Zogby to release a survey he conducted in January of the students in the SUNY system. The results are frightening for democracy. It turns out that 45 percent of the college students would fail the basic 10-question test immigrants have to take to become U.S. citizens.