Looking for Asimov quote

External Since: May 25, 2007 Posts: 1

I'm looking for something that he said once, and I think it was in one of
his editorials in the magazine.

But, he was lamenting the fact that our political system had gotten to the
point that it was being decided by the lowest common denominator and he
opined that it might be good to give everyone one vote, but that you could
earn additional votes by passing a political awareness test, and maybe
another one by getting a college degree, a higher degree might get another
one, etc., with a max cap that he suggested as 10, but just for the sake of
discussion.

However, he also opined that while he thought this might be more fair, it
would be detrimental in that being an avowed liberal, his experience showed
that most well educated people were conservative.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

External Since: Nov 10, 2003 Posts: 25

In article <Xns993ADFE50B53Cohnjayubicpay DeleteThis @216.196.97.131>,
Mahna Mahna <mahna DeleteThis @mahna.na> wrote:

> I'm looking for something that he said once, and I think it was in one of
> his editorials in the magazine.
>
> But, he was lamenting the fact that our political system had gotten to the
> point that it was being decided by the lowest common denominator and he
> opined that it might be good to give everyone one vote, but that you could
> earn additional votes by passing a political awareness test, and maybe
> another one by getting a college degree, a higher degree might get another
> one, etc., with a max cap that he suggested as 10, but just for the sake of
> discussion.
>
> However, he also opined that while he thought this might be more fair, it
> would be detrimental in that being an avowed liberal, his experience showed
> that most well educated people were conservative.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>

I can't recall ever reading like this by the Good Doctor (but I'll
freely grant that I didn't subscribe to his magazine until the late
80's). But it really doesn't sound like something he'd suggest, even
hypothetically, given his life-long devotion to civil rights.

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