It is the solemn responsibility of every blogger to “weigh” in their two cents during the election season. It is impossible to have no bias, so we might as well take a side. Here is my four cents:
The “Man” wants you to believe that the US government is a democracy. Government by the people. Each vote carrying equal weight. At least that’s what they say. Maybe that’s what they believe. Really, that’s my point.
I believe a government should be founded solidly in Noocracy. (i.e. government by the intelligent.) Specifically, a democracy where your vote is weighted by your intelligence. Statisticians weight survey responses all the time. Some people are unfortunately under-represented in the sample---this must be compensated for through proper weighting during statistical tests.
For whatever reason, I believe that rational, intuitive thinkers are under-represented in our government. I can only assume they must therefore be under-represented at the polls. It only makes sense to statistically compensate.
There are really two approaches to this model:
Approach 1
The first (and significantly more appropriate approach) is a macro-scale, top-down approach that eliminates votes that shouldn’t count. For example, one Dell Schanze (who affectionately refers to himself as “SuperDell”) is making a “Totally Awesome” run for the Governor of Utah.
I think that’s great.
It perfectly illustrates my point.
I believe when all is said and done, when all the votes are tallied, any social security number associated with a “SuperDell” vote should receive a weight of zero. In every election. Forever.
Don’t mistake me for taking away their right to vote. They can vote all they like. And when they vote, I think we should smile and nod, move to the next person and resume counting. Certainly, they don’t need to know no one is listening---we’re not trying to hurt anyone’s feeling here.
Alternatively, ballots could be equipped with at least some kind of survey instrument that measures at least minimal awareness of the issues / candidates being voted on. If a voter doesn’t have a clue---their vote doesn’t count. That would at least reduce ignorant noise/random error in elections.
Unfortunately, this approach relies on a rational, noocratic government to start the ball rolling. So how can you kick-start noocracy?
Approach 2
Cheat. Vote twice. This is noocracy at the grassroots level. It may be a bit Social Darwinistic, but I think people who are smart enough to figure out a way to vote twice without getting caught, deserve to receive a bit more weight at the polls. (Of course, this ~may~ be already happening [wink, wink] but obviously it is not happening enough.) If everyone tries to vote twice, the less intelligent will land in prison, leaving only the more intelligent voters to choose our representatives. And our course, our newly elected and uniquely qualified government will have some ingenious, spectacular solution to our sudden prison overcrowding problem.
So get out there and vote. Then, to quote my shampoo bottle (since I don’t have anything else to do with it) “repeat.”
