but they can't drink... go figure1) Politicians depend on stupid people voting.
2) Can't send an 18 year old off to fight in a war and then tell them they are too stupid to vote.
3) No one will ask for an ID, so even if they raised the age to 21, teenagers would still be voting.
but they can't drink... go figureWould hate to tell an 18 year old he can’t vote but he’s old to enough to die fighting Islamic scum.
You’d have to amend the US Constitution.
If they’re too stupid to drink beer responsibly, they’re certainly too stupid to vote.
They’re old enough to vote and die for their country but can’t buy booze or smokes. Hmmmmm. Something is wrong here. Sounds like a DemocRAT thing.
If you’re 18, you should be able to vote, drink or die for your country. Sadly, that comes with dying in a drunk driving crash or a drunken jump from a balcony into a motel pool during spring break.
Freedom has a price. Sometimes it’s worth it, sometimes it isn’t.
The only 18 year olds who should be allowed to are those in the military or those who already pay income/property tax (although I don’t think anyone who doesn’t pay income/property tax should be allowed to vote).
Raise the voting age!
Establish term limits!
Time for an Article V convention!
The real problem with the so-called constitutional republic is the following imo. With all due respect to mom and pop, and as mentioned in related threads, parents are not making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers. The consequence of widespread voter ignorance of the federal government's limited powers is that voters do not understand that most federal laws and federal taxes are probably unconstitutional.
In fact, military issues aside, if voters understood that one of the very few government services that the states have actually delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, is the specific power to make policy for is the US Mail Service, such power evidenced by the Constitution's Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I, then consider the following.
Once constitutionally indefensible federal laws, likewise indefensible federal taxes, and also the services provided by those indefensible taxes are eliminated, then crook lawmakers would probably not only lose interest in getting elected to DC, but voters would likely also lose interest in what is going on in DC.
Jerry Springer would be pissed.
Adults aren’t smart enough to vote either.
I mean really, generally speaking, people aren’t smart at all.
If that is the new standard, judging by the results, the voting age should be raised to around 50.
Most voters today don't have the smarts of 7-year-olds.
Only men who are married with children, and living with the mother of their children, should be allowed to vote.
As a millennial, I say raise it to 30.
Harry Truman was asked about lowering the voting age to 18 his reply was, it would make more sense to raise it to 25.
Harry was right then, but now it should be 35.
I always liked Heilein’s view on voting from his book “Starship Troopers”.
If you don’t believe me, I suggest you actually go to a college campus and talk to some students.
It’s not the age. It’s basically the IQ.
What was the voting age during WWII?
How about a good old fashioned citizenship test. Ask Questions about the bill of rights and history. that should weed out about 95% of urban voters.