Should 16 year olds be allowed to vote?. You know, those adolescents of an age to seriously consider taking a YouTube Challenge...
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No. No. No. Science has proven that the brain doesn't stop developing until the age of 25. So if anything the age limit should be lifted. The youth of today has proven that they can not be trusted to vote and the educational system doesn't teach them to be free thinkers anymore.
Absolutely positively NO. 16 year olds of this generation are vastly different than any previous generation. It may be wrong to be this judgmental but i feel that these 16 year olds can barely tie their own shoes. Entitlement culture and the lack of accountability on their part is a recipe for disaster.
I'm optimistic that voter ID will be coming. The dems are going to lose a lot of their illegals that voted so they need to replace them somehow. 16 year olds eat tide pods and light themselves on fire (not all of them... but c'mon!)
The left has lost there base . Black people are waking up from there slave mentality and the Hispanics to . There just sick of living and voting democrat and not seeing results. . So go after the week minds of a sixteen year old and imagrants and promise the the world like some grade school elections and the weeek mind will vote for your party . My point of view on this .
No 16 year olds are morons....hell most 22 yo I know are morons
NO..... However... If our kids were being properly educated on the Constitution, and more moderate leaning values. I can see why this idea can gain traction. The point had been made that if we engage them early to the ideas that impact that generation they will grow up in then....
Nobody knows.......
No they will be pushed to what there teacher preaches . Look at the college students now and there 18-25 years old and still have not woken up . Just fallow there narrative.
That's a definite NO. I think everyone understands why lowering the voting age is bad idea. I think most people also see this proposal for what it is...a blatant attempt by the left to harvest more votes.
20 years ago I would have said yes, but todays youth have been brainwashed. So, NO!
My kids are in their 40's and 50's. If they went to public schools 20 years ago, they were brainwashed. I was able to correct most of it. They even tried it on me, didn't take. I was NOT allowed to go to my own graduation, but I did get my diploma.
In short i don't think 16 year olds should vote (not in the US but the question applies here too). There needs to be a gap for young people between forming their political opinions and actually voting on them. It's an opportunity at least, if they are politically aware and motivated, to become more educated on issues that interest them.
There are people with an IQ too low to join the army, what's the difference. ? Do we sit a test to see how smart we are first ?
No they shouldnt. Their to easily led and brainwashed at that age. Any politicians offering free stuff these babies will vote for.
Precisely the reason why liberals want them to be able to vote. They forget the frontal lobe cortex does not mature until early to mid 20s, yet another reason why they want them to be able to vote . . . before they age up and out of the liberal agenda.
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Should we grant suffrage to such fools as we must then suffer gladly?
Duh... of course the answer is a resounding No.
I didn't actually mean this post as a yes or no question. It's almost rhetorical... that's kinda why I spent the rest of the post ridiculing children of such an age and not fully developed mindset.
Yes, but their vote should only count as half. Get them used to the process, so that by the time their 18, they can look back at their first election and realize that they had no idea what they were doing.