John Stossel: Young people are too dumb to vote

Seriously.

"STOSSEL: I’m not saying we should have a test or something. But this endless cheerleading — let’s go to the rock concerts and register the kids. And the kids aren’t paying attention. And it’s important in a democracy, it’s important to vote. And these are important issues. The people who participate ought to be the ones who pay attention… I’m just saying we shouldn’t have these "Get Out The Vote” campaigns and make these statements: "Everyone has to vote. It’s your patriotic duty!" Well if you’re not paying attention, I think it’s your patriotic duty not to vote."

This explains the GOP's campaign to make it harder for democratic voters to participate in democracy. I mean - really why bother, right? Let's just have a dictatorship. Democracy is too expensive anyway. Or maybe a monarchy - those are fancy right? Maybe John Stossel is just too dumb to vote.

(h/t ThinkProgress)