There should be a test before you can vote.
I used to joke about this but I'm increasingly serious about it.
And I don't mean an intelligence test, it's not about that. But FFS show you understand the issues at hand before you put your mark.
The problem with democracy (I think we can all agree that's an excellent way to start a sentence) is that it's built on the premise that everyone gets to have an opinion (which I'm on board with). But it's also based on the premise that
everyone's opinion is equally valid. That second part is bullshit. The bloke down the pub who is going to vote for Brexit because of the "bloody Frogs' - his opinion is not as valid as someone who has a degree in EU law and has studied the workings of the EU for years. We all have different expertise and knowledge, our opinions about things are not equally valid, but we all get one vote. I'm sort of arguing for a meritocracy, and that feels wrong to me. But people voting for Brexit as a "protest" or because they're racist idiots, those people shouldn't get a vote. And, for balance, people voting to Remain because they think the sky will fall in if we leave, they probably shouldn't get one either.
Back to Trump. And this relates to my point above about people having different expertise. I see he tweeted about a predicted cold snap and said "where's global warming?". A president who doesn't understand the difference between climate and weather making policies which affect the former. The mind boggles...