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I dont think MacMorris is a democrat at all.

I am a democrat because I believe the government should be accountable to the people it governs. When 80% of the population say that they want restrictions on immigration I would like to think our government might take that into account when deciding on the future of their immigration policy.

In fact here is a quote from him on boards.ie

“Instead of allowing everyone the right to vote, everyone should be allowed to right to earn the right to vote. If I had my way, I would limit the franchise so that it discriminated in favour of the more intelligent people.”

You need to put that quote in context. I was not saying that certain people should be denied the right to vote. What I said is that everyone should be allowed to vote but that the more educated people should be allowed more than one vote. I believe that people should have to complete a test of general knowledge to measure their knowledge of the kinds of issues that they will be called upon to vote. The higher that people score on the test, the more votes they would be given.

I got the idea from a short story I read by Mark Twain called The Curious Republic of Gondour. It’s available online if you want to read it.
http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Curious-Republic-of-Gondour.html

So that 80% figure you quote. Were they the intelligent people or the ignorant people?

I don’t know, but as the number is so high I would assume that a large number of intelligent people are included in that figure. 50% of the population have above average intelligence. Even if you assume that the 20% who said they don’t want restrictions are the most intelligent people in the country, that still leaves 30% of the rest who would still be of above average intelligence. That means that of the 50% of the population who have above average intelligence, 60% (30% of the total) think there should be restrictions on immigration and 40% (20% fo the total) think there shouldn’t.