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To: Syncro

***the argument for allowing children to vote was that 18-year-olds could drink and be conscripted into the military, so they ought to be allowed to vote.**

I read a fictional short story in a magazine back about 1967 about the US dropping the voting age to 16. The teens took over, and kept the older wiser people on drugs to control them.

I don’t remember if it was in ESQUIRE or PLAYBOY (some of us DID read the articles).


24 posted on 11/10/2010 4:28:34 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I think anyone in the military should be able to drink and vote. Not necessarily at the same time lol!

Anyone else, 21.

25 posted on 11/10/2010 4:35:00 PM PST by Syncro ("Citizen Legislators": As It Was Intended...Not Full Time Politicians : >)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Sounds like a movie that I like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_in_the_Streets


42 posted on 11/10/2010 5:27:50 PM PST by ansel12
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