Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161105:15:10:00
There were poll taxes, there were all sorts of things that prohibited just, you know, the poor, white, uneducated. they couldn't vote because the founding fathers did not trust a judgment made by a population this big. and so eventually over time we did. we decided to trust it more and more and more. and so we don't have that capacity to say you have failed our intelligence test. you don't get to vote next time. and then here and now we have arrived in the 21st century at a presidential election that is a public intelligence test. >> yeah. >> it's a pass/fail intelligence test. >> it's remarka...