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Posted on 03/12/2021 11:57:17 AM PST by The Houston Courant
Imagine yourself a Democrat seeking elective office in a competitive district, the kind of place with a reassuring plenitude of Unitarian churches and vegan bistros, but just a few too many tax-weary entrepreneurs and stodgy evangelicals lurking about to let you breathe easy. You calm yourself by sitting back and rereading an old favorite poem, Bertolt Brecht’s “The Solution,” and you wonder if the author was onto something when he reckoned it could make sense “to dissolve the people and elect another.” (Brecht was being sarcastic, but you, being a Democrat, cannot sense this.)
You desire some extra voters who can’t be bothered to worry about corporate taxes, trade negotiations, fossil-fuel extraction, or law enforcement, who hand-wring instead about the real issues of our time: legalizing prostitution, abolishing prisons, and calling people by their preferred pronouns. Rejoice, then, for Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) wants to help you. Her proposed amendment to H.R. 1, the misnamed “For the People Act,” would let 16-year-olds vote.
A cynical read on this idea is that it burdens tender youths to benefit a more privileged class, namely left-wing politicos. But is such cynicism unwarranted these days? Consider a parallel: teachers unions, since they originated, have capitalized on the powerlessness of children and have done so with preternatural gall in this epoch of COVID shutdowns. Leftist politicians, who at least match American educrats in avarice, have simply found a new way to exploit juveniles by disrupting their focus on their intellectual, social, and spiritual growth.
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Democrats have a fetish for abusing the young.
Well, no.
You can post it all right here.
We don't owe you any traffic for being a blogger.
Get a job.
If 16-year-olds vote they should have to register for the draft. In fact, go UMI and whip all their fat. Shines into shape for two or three years.
Why stop at 16. Anything to indoctrinate the skulls full of mush.
Then they are old enough to leave the roost, get a job, and give life a go on their own.
And the Armed Forces should not require a parent’s permission to join.
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Many 16 year-olds work, pay taxes and there is nothing in the Constitution that would restrict 16 year-olds from voting.
Joke is, Dems lower the voting age to 16. Trump runs again, promising fast food for school lunch, and sweeps he country !
Soon they will be requiring 16 to 18 yr olds in high school to vote or they will not graduate. They will guide them in the proper candidates to vote for.
Nothing is stopping any state from lowering the voting age to whatever they want. The 26th Amendment only says states cannot raise the voting age to over 18.
The same goes for 15 year olds. Let them all vote, this country has seen it’s better days anyway.
If they can vote at 16 then they should be able to drink, get loans, and anything else an adult does.
Didn’t it take a Constitutional Amendment to lower the voting age to 18?
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