Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for November 02, 2015

Gotta love those millennials.

don’t vote, don’t complain..\\//_

Mandatory voting? Sounds like Communism.

Personally I think voters should be required to pass a knowledge test prior to voting. If you lack the knowledge you don’t get to vote.As the strip implies, people know more about American Idol contestants than they know about political candidates.

spacey1No, more like Australia. Most communist countries restricted the vote to “card-carrying” party members, which was from 5% (USSR) to 50% (Poland) of the adult population. Learn about communism before flinging the term onto anything you don’t understand and that waning political philosophy would have even less power. The same goes for all other political ideologies. Especially socialism and populism, which are totally different from communism or capitalism, although differ from each other mainly in that socialism is top down while populism is grass-roots up, but both strive for the greatest good for the greatest number in the shortest time.

Mandatory voting is the dumbest idea I’ve heard in a long time. I would rather have a lower percentage of well-informed voters than force the masses to vote about something they neither know nor care about.

Oh well.

The problem is getting more people to vote in midterm elections.

JanCinLVManditory voting permits a “none of the above”, a provision that avoids the two-party system becoming one party with two names.