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So yeah, we have had a plutocracy for quite some time now. Wasn’t the country essentially founded by wealthy landowners who wanted to keep voting rights for th

• christophilus 4y ago
  > who wanted to keep voting rights for their class This is true, but a less cynical read would be that this was a side-effect, and what they were aiming for was reserving the act of voting for only those who were informed, educated, etc. Land ownership was a rough proxy for that. I’m not so sure it’s a bad idea to restrict voting, but the problem is, no one wants to be the one left out, and someone will always be disenfranchised.
  • xracy 4y ago
    Given that this has been historically used to disenfranchise minorities, it seems to me like a reasonable take of the situation.