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Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable
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The amount of "I'm shocked, Shocked I tell you, SHOCKED... that the leopards have chosen to eat my face off as well!" is staggering, and only understandable to me b/c I live in the USA, where we are doing pretty much the same thing.
"Facts" do not matter to conservatives, only how they "feel" about something, in the moment.:-(
They take the message of their religion and turn it into veneration of their ego. If democratic participation required a test first, we wouldn't be having this problem, nor dozens of others.
There are driving tests, and vehicle registration, but the truly dangerous stuff like guns and voting have that vastly reduced to eliminated.
History shows that every expansion of voting was accompanied by some new party looking to get elected by so doing. And now conservatives are doing similarly to what you said, and opposite to those historical expansions, by increasing restrictions / decreasing availability for college students to vote. Basically whatever helps them win. Liberals likewise are trying to get former prisoners onto the rosters, as conservatives have been pushing for the opposite.
But the uneducated people would not take kindly to having the conservative strategy, levied against others, turned around and used against them. What "should" be done, what "makes sense", is irrelevant in politics, which is the art of doing what is possible, not what is correct.