Posted on 08/13/2018 12:34:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Selecting a competent person to be one’s proxy to make the decision on which candidate will make the most competent and wise decisions related to one’s own life, liberty and property is a serious and life-impacting decision. To believe it is wise to hand off that decision to the average 16-year-old is mind-boggling.
Oh great! Brace yourselves for President Kardashian or Bieber, or teen idol of the day.
If our country can call on 18 year olds to fight in its defense, then 18 year olds should be able to vote. Besides, there are plenty of 25 year olds who don’t think any more rationally than a 2 year old, no matter how physically developed their brain is.
Why not sign them up at birth? Just put a little footprint on the voter registration paper when you put one on the birth certificate and Bob’s your uncle! /s
Millions of twitter followers.
How about RAISING the voting age to at least 27 years old, because Obama and the Democrats passed Obamacare saying that 26 year olds are “children,” who should be included on their parents’ healthcare plans. Children should not vote.
If our country can call on 18 year olds to fight in its defense, then 18 year olds should be able to vote.
But I know my position will never get any sort of consensus support, so I’m fine with what worked for a very long time: 21.
Heck...go all in..
Infants get to vote...too
That might change the minds of some democrats on abortion...
RE:”We should raise the voting age to the same as that required to purchase a handgun”
Or any gun.
Heck, why stop at 16?
Might as well go for 10 or 8!......................
Then lower the age to own rifles to 16 as well.
Rigt?
Exactly. People who don't know how the working world works, who are not even the age of majority, have no business making decisions of such gravity.
I'm all for raising it to 21, or at least no lower than 19.
If 16 is old enough to vote, then it’s old enough to serve in the military too.
Lower the draft age to 16.
BINGO!!!! A WINNER!!!!
But you make far too much sense. The thought police will be at your door momentarily.
Let fetuses vote! Maybe we’ll get quick action on abortion.
I am of the opinion that voting age (age of majority) should be tied to the age of purchasing a handgun.
I'm not sure that the Dems can fool the children too. They may not be as brain dead as the walking voting dead.
Nevertheless, foolish children don't need to be voting in U.S. elections.
Yep, that was the first thing that came to mind, only they pushed for 14. "Fourteen or fight." Then the voted themselves the rulers over adults.
In Montenegro, the voting age is 18, 16 if you are employed. Perhaps we should do something similar.
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