(That's page 1 of 3, BTW, just in case anybody thought the 10-minute time limit sounded easy.)

Difference here would be the test is applied to everyone, not only a racial monitory. Still, the idea makes me squirm.

There can absolutely be a difference between a facts based civics test and the intentionally vague bullshit of the Jim Crow era.

Just because a process was used as a cover for systemic discrimination in the past doesn't mean the process is invalid.

We require it for gaining citizenship after all. I've taken the test myself and it's pretty basic 8th grade level stuff about how the government is supposed to function.

I don't think it's inherently wrong to insure that the people participating in the process actually know how the process works.

Honest question, why does wanting a politician to know the absolute bare minimum of civics, hence being a regular society member, is akin to a socialist democracy?

Follow up, if a civics test would be mandatory for a politician job, it should also be free to every taxpayer, period.

socialist democracy

Well, duh! Sign me the fuck up.

90% of the country doesn't make that much money

I would be curious if it's the educational component or the money component that influences people to be right or left leaning.

Yes more people who have second education degrees lean blue, but how many of them are arts degrees and whatnot where they never got to work in their field and are wage slave baristas at Starbucks or whatever.

Meanwhile a lot of people who never went to college went to trade school and are making bank, but most lean towards Republicans.

There was one article I read where people tend to move from Democrat to Republican as they get older, since they eventually amass wealth and net worth and then all of a sudden have more to lose by taxes going up or other policies benefitting those with less then they have and they won't benefit directly anymore.

I'm sure higher education has a role to play, especially down south where even grade school public education is abysmal and most lean to the right.

But money plays a big role too I imagine.

No civics classes when I graduated

Not me. Graduated '89.