I can. People are so focused on not disenfranchising voters (like actually happened / might still happen against marginalized segments of the population), that they don't wonder, what is _empowering_ a citizen as a voter?

I DO support a basic civics and mathematics test, on a recurring basis, for voters. HOWEVER, that's only with the catch that failing or opting out of the test creates benefits designed to encourage the citizen to pass the test in the future. A benefit like, access to public education to work on that math skills and civics awareness. Or possibly someone is disabled (often silently, dementia is a real issue!) and the voter tests might be one of the places it's discovered.

A democracy is not a system of government in which the government's power derives from the people who know calculus. It a system wherein power comes from the people, period.

Also, literacy tests were ruled unconstitutional in Oregon v. Mitchell.

Please do not put words in my mouth. Calculus is currently an AP / college subject, not a required public education one.

Fair enough.

"The national uninsured rate in the United States has reached an all-time low of 8%". Given this, I would say 92% US citizens don't care. Most people get insurance from work, family or are of the 120 million Medicare/Medicaid patients. If you are in another country reading our news - we would look like idiots, but, in reality 92% of the country is insured.

> Given this, I would say 92% US citizens don't care.

That's what is so mind-boggling to me.

The US as a whole spends more on healthcare than any other OECD country, and the fact that most people in the electorate don't care about this is kind of depressing.

The ACA made life much, much better for people who are insured. Most of what the ACA did was tell insurance companies that they had to actually pay for things once in a while - e.g., getting rid of "preexisting condition" excuses - so that their product would be just a bit more predictable and less of a scam.

Or a senior citizen on Medicare complaining about they don’t want government run healthcare.

The Democrats were absolutely massacred for passing it in 2010.

Even Massachusetts elected a Republican Senator!

Even now I don’t think the Democrats gain much from bringing it up,