Yeah, she's an idiot..................
Posted on 06/30/2016 9:38:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Sixteen years. That’s how much longer the average British voter aged 65 and older will live, according to one analysis, which means that’s how long they’ll have to live with the outcome of last week’s Brexit referendum. Since older voters are estimated to have turned out in huge numbers — and voted overwhelmingly to leave the European Union — Britain’s graying generation is partly responsible for the biggest drop in the pound in decades, for the uncertainty in lives of millions of EU citizens in Britain and British citizens in the EU, and for bringing to power a group of conservative politicians who trafficked in racist rhetoric and outright lies to win.
There’s a decent argument to be made for denying suffrage to anyone old enough to collect Social Security.
So why do we even let old people vote? After all, there are minimum voting ages — 16- and 17-year-olds fought for the chance to vote in the EU referendum and were denied. Had that 1.46-million-member voting bloc been allowed to contribute, it would likely have swung the vote for “Remain” — 82 percent of them said they’d have voted to stay in the EU. When Scotland voted on its independence in 2014, 16- and 17-year-olds were given a vote, under the logic that it was their future being irrevocably altered. There’s a decent argument to be made for denying suffrage to anyone old enough to collect Social Security. Most are no longer working or raising children. Why should they create the future when they won’t be around to deal with the consequences?
Pragmatic, the idea is not. It’s hard to imagine any legislator introducing such a bill (we hear you, AARP!), or, for that matter, a court diluting or limiting the power of an older-person bloc. For starters, doing so would blatantly violate the U.S. Constitution, points out voting rights expert Nathan Persily: The 26th Amendment declares that voting cannot be “denied or abridged” on account of age, so long as the voter is 18 or older. And apart from that, such a proposal is mean and disrespectful; not all older people are shortsighted (we love you, Mom and Dad!). It also sounds a bit like millennial grousing. Instead of trying to dilute the power of an older voting bloc, why can’t young people turn out in greater numbers? Get thee to the polls, young people!
Outlandish though the idea of restricting the suffrage of elders is, a reasonable argument does exist that “there is bias against the youth vote in the system as currently constituted,” says Persily. Younger people tend to be more transient than older ones. Not necessarily in a bad way, mind you. Some are attending college and working summer jobs. Others are moving from job to job, or house to house, or partner to partner, in an effort to get settled and put down roots. Mobility, it turns out, is an important predictor of voter registration, and because young people move more, fewer are registered. Indeed, sometimes localities try to dilute the influence of college students by scheduling elections in the summer.
So why not make voting registration easier? In most countries, Persily says, voter registration is a state responsibility and the default status of citizens is “registered.” Most jurisdictions in the U.S., on the other hand, put the burden on its citizens to register. In 2012, the Pew Charitable Trusts estimated that 51 million eligible voters were not registered, a whopping 24 percent of the eligible population. A disproportionate number of those were young people.
Automatic voter registration is changing this fact — but in the meantime, consider this: Americans don’t get to vote in Mexican elections, and Canadians don’t get a say in who leads France, or whether France remains in the EU, or whether Paris’ arrondissements should be redistricted. The future is a country, and if you’re not going to be there, don’t expect to get to govern it.
No one under 40 should vote. Exceptions only for honorable discharges from the military.
Don’t let stupid people vote.
Have a friend in Australia that said the same thing....OLD PEOPLE SCREWED THE YOUNG KIDS!!! OMG!
The answer to your question is very simple, Fiona. We’ve earned the right, and if you try to take it away from us we’ll shoot you. Next stupid question?
Until women are eligible for the draft, their voting age should be raised to 21 with men remaining eligible at 18.
These idiots don’t realize that in 16 years, the middle aged voters will become old voters and they’ll probably vote exactly the same way old voters usually vote :D
The mewing whine of Fiona-the-Millenial. Can’t blame her. She grew up her whole life being told how perfect she is in every way.
Now something didn’t turn out the way she wants; it is “unexpected”. In her mind, impossible. Someone is to blame for this! Someone needs to be held accountable and made to pay!
Marxist worldview established in the brainwashed useful idiots who lived in an irrational, programmed, artificial world their WHOLE life and are incapable of Wisdom (knowing anything in Reality about Natural Laws (Common Sense).
It is the mantra of Marxism to kill anyone over the age of 30 (because they may at that point have a chance to be awakened to the Lies and Reality.) The Matrix (complete control of the Mind) can only be breached with experience and Wisdom (truth) and young people today have no Real Life experiences and are made completely dependent on the system.....they can’t even “think” critically-—nothing in their heads but mush.
That’s a nice sentiment, but they’re basically admitting to vote fraud for all the world to see... you’re not supposed to vote if you are dead!
Let them vote, just don't let them count the vote.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."
Mark Twain -
Old people, what have they ever done for us?
Reminded me of a very public interaction between a 20 something and an older gentleman.
I’ll need to paraphrase, but it went something like this;
20 something saying in response to the Older man “ Your generation doesn’t understand, we grew up with technology, computers, the Internet, Smart phones and the rest, you didn’t”
The older man replied “My generation invented those technologies”.
What she’s really saying is: Don’t let old, Christian, white people vote.....................
Is Ms. Zublinjun British or what?
Harry Truman was asked about lowering the voting age to 18 replied, Make more sense to raise it to 25.
Yeah, she's an idiot..................
My dad was a conservative republican until he started receiving social security. Then he became a raving liberal democrat.
Now I know why lions eat their young...
See Universal Suffrage.
Incidentally, anyone who understands the disadvantage of entrusting power to a centralized bureaucracy, the advantages in building on a successful heritage, and a pride in following in the footsteps of noble role models; will realize that Britain's exit from the EU is profoundly beneficial to her people's future.
The writer is not just shallow; he has reality upside down. One very confused pseudo-intellectual puppy.
Her name is Fiona Zublin.
"Progressives" may believe they have appropriately "erased" the minds of those "imprisoned" in their coercively controlled public schools of the past several decades.
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