Yep:
This new realization comes just in time to get ready for dumping on Trump indirectly in 2018, and directly in 2020.
Good Lord, no. and revoke the right to vote for anyone under 25 without a job.
I disagree-strongly.
Rather than lower the age of suffrage, I suggest we both raise it 21 AND require that all potential voters become eligible only after presenting a paid property, income or business tax receipt to the clerk of the county. To vote in local, city county state or US elections, you must be able to prove you paid into the governing effort- taxes if you must.
The progressive era/age of entitlement voting, along with everything else must be rolled back and only vested citizen be eligible to vote- as they have to pay for the outcomes. Cicero wisely stated something along these line- “a republic/democracy will exist only as long as it takes for the dirt bag populace to realize they hold the keys to the treasury....” ( lots of editorial license on my part of course)
Think if you, as a parent, had to allow all of your underage and self-motivated children to vote on how the family income was spent- and be held to that outcome. The proverbial cookie jar is one thing, our nations course and direction are another.
Under 21? Don’t pay taxes? Grow up and step up into the role of a responsible citizen. No? Go away, and let the real men and women of the nation do their duty. It IS only fair.
The age to vote should be the same as the required age to drink alcohol or use tobacco.
Raise it to 21 and serve Beer at the Polling Places.
Raise the voting age and make sure the voters have an IQ of 175...and know economics and history...