Jim Macklin wrote:
STARSHIP TROOPERS, Service equals Citizenship. You have all
the rights, except the right to vote unless your risked your
life.
There are other ways to serve a country besides military service.
You're honestly telling me your average 18 year old Army recruit is
remotely intelligent about politics? I don't think so. For that
matter, my brother's OCS class wasn't exactly full of political scholars
(or any other kind of scholar)

If I ruled the USA, voters would have to pass a test run by
a machine, identify certain people by their picture, pick
the correct answer to a few questions on the Constitution.
Which people you ask? Public figures from history; Lincoln,
Grant, Lee, Henry, Washington, Ike, Reagan, their current
Congressman and Senators, maybe some Supreme Court members.
What history? Random questions, anything, Civil War, WWI
and WWII, Mexican War 1 and 2, Bill of Rights, enough to
show they have some interest and are aware of the issues.
Good luck with that. Unfortunately, you can't legislate intelligence
(but it would make my life easier!)