Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!mwm From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Getting the horse to drink. Message-ID: <999@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 19:36:12 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.999 Posted: Tue Jul 9 19:36:12 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 07:22:13 EDT References: <8472@ucbvax.ARPA><1619@dciem.UUCP> Reply-To: mwm@ucbtopaz.UUCP (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 16 In article <1619@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes: >In my view, one freedom that should be >curtailed is the freedom to be uninformed (or uneducated, perhaps). Martin, just *how* are you going to force people to be informed&educated&rational? There are lot's of educators out there who'd like to know. :-) I have had some thoughts along those lines before. They all amount to dis-enfranchising some portion of the populace based on literacy/etc. The best of the lot seemed to be having ballots that list party platforms (with the party name removed), instead of party and/or nominees. At the very least, it would make the party think a little about what they were putting in their platform.