Posted on 10/21/2019 8:36:21 AM PDT by luv2ski
In 2016, Mari Copeny wrote a letter to President Barack Obama to ask him for help addressing a problem in her hometown. Copeny, a resident of Flint, Michigan, wanted Obama to visit the city to address the ongoing water crisis. "I've been doing my best to march in protest and to speak out for all the kids that live here in Flint," Copeny wrote, referring to the city's tainted water supply due to government corner-cutting. She added that she was going to travel to Washington, D.C., for the congressional testimony of Rick Snyder, then the Michigan governor. At the time, Copeny was 8 years old.
In the five years since Flint's water crisis began, Copeny — also known as "Little Miss Flint" — has continued her activism. But while she's provided nearly 17,000 Flint kids with school supplies, raised well over $100,000 for water filtration technology, and handed out hundreds of thousands of water bottles to Flint residents still skeptical of the city-provided water, the now-12-year-old hasn't been able to tap into perhaps the most fundamental resource Americans have to effect change in their democracy: the ability to vote.
Copeny has been vocal about her inability to vote, and how her future depends on older Americans making the right choices. She's not alone as a young activist who has demanded action from her representatives on the issues close to her, either.
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Raising the voting age to 25 would make more sense.
Right after you lower the smoking, drinking and gun ownership age.
Until then you can STFU because you’re saying people aren’t responsible until that she but they can vote?
Good thing that we are NOT a Democracy.
Raise it to 25 and limit the franchise to those younger than 65.
democracy = mob rule...........................
Agree. It should be raised, not lowered.
Raising the voting age to 40 would make a better Representative Democracy, which is more to the point.
Democrats always fight tooth and nail anything that would reduce corruption of the voter rolls. And fight tooth and nail for anything that will further corrupt the voter rolls. Lets go back to property owners, and people who actually pay taxes.
Don't say that! I just turned 65 in September! :-)
I think people with multiple personalities should be allowed to vote multiple times. I think people with multiple genders should be allowed to participate in whatever gender sport they choose to be that day. I think Nancy Pelosi should be recognized as a vivacious, attractive 25 year old instead of the 80 year old demented dingbat representing the garbage and sewage strewn streets of San Francisco she is. I believe lots of impossible things, said Alice to the March hare.
14 or Flight !
Raise the voting age to 30.
Until either the experience of college, or the experience of working leads to the early years of marriage, children and paying taxes, young folk have neither the experience or the life-education to know what’s what in the real world.
The promises of politicians mean one thing when you are not impacted directly by the costs of those promises, and another when what you are about is taking care of what is yours, financially protecting it and with an eye on how to accumulate something for your retirement age.
The voter age should be a citizen aged 21. Other limits have been tried and found unfair or unworkable.
Lowering it to prenatal would eliminate abortions in America.
First and foremost is that even the sharpest high school students I've ever known were completely ill-equipped about making decisions of huge political importance.
They misspelled corruption, malfeasance and incompetence.
The obvious hope is that 18 year olds would vote for more of the same - but wouldn't that merely create more Flints and more Flint waters?
Mic.com.....SERIOUSLY????
WILD IN THE STREETS (1968) for real.
Does this moron actually believe that Flint's residents would have clean drinking water if 12 year-olds were able to vote?
We wouldn't even rely on a 12 year-old to TEST the quality of their own drinking water.
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