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@sickmatter There are a whole lot of criteria that strictly speaking prevent people from voting for whoever they want to. Like age restrictions on the lower end for some positions, whether or not someone was born in the US, ETC. According to your logic, we should just have no limits on anything at all in order to preserve voter choice, and that would create all sorts of problems.

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@sickmatter Experience is good. But this thing where we essentially have people like Dick D who are refusing to learn how technology works so they'll quit trying to do things like ban encryption is a problem. Experience doesn't do a bit of good when it prevents you from keeping up. Also, we have a voting population that has convinced itself that electing people who refuse to learn anything is a good thing and I don't see this changing anytime soon.