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This argument is just the diversity boogeyman in a different form. I.e. how can Congress pass laws that are good for all Americans when it's full of white men?
Now, obviously hydroacetylene's suggestion wouldn't be practical to suggest in a modern Western country (even though it's how the US system was originally designed). But your objection that it leads to political violence is belied by the levels of political violence we have today.
The point of limiting the vote to a cohort like the suggested one is to make sure all those voting are people of good character, invested in their community, and care about people other than themselves (i.e. their family). The idea that male heads of households would vote against the interests of their wives is pretty cynical, for instance, and in the type of society that is being suggested here I would expect these voters to be more concerned with the well-being of their whole family than, say, current voters who are often single-voter issues on purely self-interested things that affect them, like student loan forgiveness or even abortion. It also incentivizes people to get married, have children, and buy a house, all things that we want. For these reasons it seems like a pro-social and useful suggestion, and I think your objections to it are surface level and apply even more strongly to the current system.
They can do so perfectly well when the interests of white men align with those of women and minorities; it is when they diverge that there is an issue.
Can an all-white Congress be trusted to forgo a bill that would result in +0.001 util/white person and -10,000 utils/black person?
There are many, many married fathers of bad character; forgiving indeed is the one who would not include at least one U. S. President in that category. There are also many women, single men, and childless husbands of far better character than the aforementioned married fathers.
Male heads of households would vote against the interests of their wives, when those interests are at cross purposes to their own. A man who wishes to be allowed to legally beat his wife if she dis-pleases him in the slightest way is unlikely to vote for a candidate promising a crack-down on spousal abuse, even though it would be to his wife's benefit.
Expect in one hand, [excrete] in the other, and see which one fills up first.
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