Take on mandatory voting

This week Obama had what seemed like a throw-away comment about mandatory voting which struck us as an absolutely horrible idea. I'm not talking about the inalienable freedom decide to vote but rather that it is just not a very good idea. First of all having a influx of uninformed voters decide the fate of this country sounds like a horrible idea. The people who spend more time worrying about American Idol than world issues should probably not be making decisions that will impact all of our collective future. Secondly, the thought that this would lessen the impact of big money in politics is ludicrous as it will only invite more attack ads as people will be voting based only on name recognition. Lastly, this country's constitution was never written to be a true democracy, look at things like the electoral college which is designed to minimize the impact of the uninformed, uneducated and undesirable voters. This is why we live in a republic with a representative democracy and not a true democracy. They may claim it is to protect the minority but truthfully it is to minimize the impact of the stupid and uniformed and I am OK with that.

Plus, if we had to vote in very single election between local, state, county and federal voting, I'd never get any work done. You'd be debating the merits of every dog catcher and country comptroller for hours