Honest question, why does wanting a politician to know the absolute bare minimum of civics, hence being a regular society member, is akin to a socialist democracy?
Follow up, if a civics test would be mandatory for a politician job, it should also be free to every taxpayer, period.
I understand, while that can happen with some individuals, it’s not true for the vast majority of people.
I too rather go without this shitty system, but that’s not how it goes unfortunately, got denied a house financing twice because of the low score (got some debts a década ago and the score never went back up), I managed to use a friend’s name for financing, then later I transfered it to my name, many loops and roundabouts.
Yes it had very bad flaws, which didn’t discourage its wide range of use. One can say it’s not objectively good, but it’s subjectively not bad.
As I answered below, it was part of the “good guys” versions of windows, not receive popular backlash like windows ME, 8 and 11