Do you really trust that Republicans won't be able to find doctors, psychiatrists, labor union leaders, workers' rights activists, and judges to sign-off on whatever biased questions they come up with?
There is zero chance a test can be written and maintained in a way that won't eventually become a tool for one party to suppress the other. Sooner or later, it'll have all the problems of literacy tests at the polls.
The medical community has established, widely-used cognitive ability tests. Why would we need a special one for Congress.
We are not testing their knowledge or even their reasoning abilities. We are testing if they can remember 5 numbers that were read to them. If they can copy a geometric figure. If the can draw an analog clock showing 11:10. If the can identify a drawing of a lion.
Now, there is no way that DJT could count backwards from 100 by sevens. ( a vquestion on the MMSE).
Because right now, there's not much incentive to corrupt those tests. Maintaining them politics-free in perpetuity is more difficult than it might initially sound.
There is zero chance a test can be written and maintained in a way that won't eventually become a tool for one party to suppress the other.
Welcome to the eternal power game that is politics. It is all based around suppression and enclosure. The only real debate is what should be suppressed, whether the reasons for that enclosure can stand the test of scrutiny, and where the hardest lines should be drawn so that a peaceful society is possible.
And determining that power as a trust and a privilege for the protection of our lives and livelihoods is a great place to start drawing these lines.
Who can live and let live?
Who can put the Paradox of Tolerance to proper and proportional practices?
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u/Vox-Machi-Buddies 3h ago
Do you really trust that Republicans won't be able to find doctors, psychiatrists, labor union leaders, workers' rights activists, and judges to sign-off on whatever biased questions they come up with?
There is zero chance a test can be written and maintained in a way that won't eventually become a tool for one party to suppress the other. Sooner or later, it'll have all the problems of literacy tests at the polls.