Idiots like the author is why we should raise the voting age to 35.
“Idiots like the author is why we should raise the voting age to 35.” [Maverick68, post 32]
Hate to say this, but it might not help.
I’ve a neighbor, age 75. Retired high school history teacher from Wisconsin. Just before the 2016 general election, he proudly declared he was a socialist - just like his father (First World War combat vet) had been before him.
He told me he’d just voted early, for Hillary Clinton. Halfheartedly. Bernie Sanders had been much more to his liking.
I hadn’t asked after his political opinions, nor had I volunteered any of my own.
Hard on the heels of that first declaration, he regaled me with approving comments about the standard litany of Left/Progressive policies and causes.
No objective material nor factual support; he simply did not “feel” any “mere citizen” ought to be allowed to own modern military small arms (the AR-15 was his principal villain). And he stated flatly that every corporation deserved to be taxed to death.
There was a lot more, but those were two major points. I struggled with a touch of vertigo, contemplating the classrooms full of students he had lectured.