Back in the Bad Old Days. The racist poll workers would employ such tests to weed out Black People from voting. Even if the Black person in question aced the test. It was still counted as a failure. Because the Poll Worker could literally fudge the numbers. The same can happen here. Do you really think a far left leaning Poll Worker is gonna say a Moderate or a Conservative person passed the test. No they would do the same as the Jim Crow racist did.
I disagree with this. Trade school is a viable alternative. Higher education clearly isn't all its cracked up to be, Women Studies...... Even someone that graduated high school and started their own business.
Consider how the system can be broken. Let's say I'm rich, all I have to do is find someone who agrees with me politically but who is poor and give him the money to buy shares for himself. Or, even if he doesn't agree with me, pay him a wage to act as a proxy vote.
That is why shares are limited to 0.001% per person. You would have to rope A LOT of people in to have enough of a block. That also risks defections, deaths, ect.
We need an intellectual class. Those who know shit and don't merely build it. Ideally everyone would be a philosopher of their own.
That was the ideal of Founding Fathers (more or less), an educated population that could make sound, rational, political decisions. It never worked for the majority. The reasons why could be argued, but I would say that it is mainly due to human nature rather than anything to do with the benefits of an irrational populace for the parties.
Requiring college would Doom the nation. The college's are fesspools of Marxism and decinstrontionism.
In defense of this idea, if you made it so that you had to be married and have children (ideally with your spouse) to vote, then that would weed out the vast majority of people who would try to cheat the system. Some people may be willing to sign a marriage certificate in order to vote, some may be willing to have a kid, but the number of people willing to do both and stick by it for years and decades... not enough to matter.
It will be programs that just tell you how each branch of the government works and what citizenship is. All you need to do is give the old School House Rock Cartoons a visual update and you are golden.
Democrats are magicians in the art of vote manipulation as @Sailor.X pointed out. They must have entire cabinets on how to alter the vote count of various systems. This is an especially bad one since the Democrats have also enthroned themselves as the ultimate arbiters of sane and intelligent, and would probably be the ones to design this Sane And Intelligent And Not Cooties Enough For Represenation test. Y'know, I got a new question, why do all these Final Solution To The Femoid Question posters keep coming up with shit that would make us beholden to the neoliberals? Is this forum a testing bed for mind control programs? Is that the malware people were talking about?
That's more difficult now. No gatekeepers of information means that anyone can say what they like, this has already led to a reactionary move towards censorship. Both of which are horrible and make the viewer less informed. Not to mention, the mass availability of countless sources of information about every topic and of limited credibility has made the average person too intellectually lazy to look stuff up.