No, I actually do think national voting should be a right in all countries and cultures and for all ages. Children are the same as adults in the sense that they can instinctively understand flaws in the way they are treated.
Voting is what allows people to dissent if they are being mistreated. If the right or left mistreats young people then they should be punished in a democracy.
We tie the ability to vote to the ability to give consent which in turn is relevant for the ability to enter contracts etc. We call that "The Age of Reasoning".
As a Democrat I am in favor of disconnecting political suffrage from the age of reasoning. I am quite in favor of reducing the voting age to 16, maybe even 14. Note, if we would do that Texas would be a blue state tomorrow. So, sure. Let's do it.
Not to say each and every adult is a paragon of critical thinking and intelligence, but kids by and large don't know shit about fuck. They'd vote in candy for all their meals or vote to skip out on going to school if they were given the choice.
Not to say Kids are intrinsically idiots, but they need guidance and direction and time to grow so they can be ready to make their own decisions when they're older.
It's why I prefaced my post with 'not that every adult is smart' stuff, lol. You got some stupid ass grown-ups who don't know shit about fuck but we let vote anyway. In the case of Children, an attempt to educate them on how the world works should at least be made before giving them the type of responsibility that comes with voting.
My real point is these kids are scared to be at school because of lax gun control laws, are put into harms was due to being forced back to school during a pandemic, and teenagers are increasingly killing them selves due to this countries poor mental health laws, I 100% think they should get a say.
I’m not saying 5 year old little Jimmy should be able to vote, but I bet if you asked him the shape of the Earth he wouldn’t say flat.
Imo the right to vote is intrinsically tied to physical maturity, and the assumption of education with that age. Hypothetically, the person is an educated voter.
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"Fear" is a provocation and the worst way to vote. Unless you really want to find out how fast civil rights can be suspended for the sake of security.
If someone is a citizen of the country, they should have the right to make their voice heard in voting.
Otherwise they should also not be required to pay taxes, or beholden to the laws of said country. Norway's the right way.
Oh the irony.
Republicans think that the ability to vote should be a privilege but at the same time, if they actually required an educational test on anything important that would basically weed out anyone that would willingly vote for them.
Just require knowledge of the tax code be demonstrated based on the actual code and that alone would weed out anyone who would vote for them.
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I am on the opposite end. Everyone old enough to join the armed services should have the right to vote, even if they are in prison.
It makes gerrymandering harder as those prisoners they looped into the sticks to give JimBob Hodunk more power can now vote too, it prevents you from abusing the prison system to keep people from voting and if you have so many prisoners that it impacts the results of an election that greatly, you already have bigger problems.
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Yeah, kids aren’t educated enough to vote…
Then proceeds to try and prevent college educated people from voting because they thinking critically more often and try and learn about the world while trying to make sure that the must uneducated and gullible among us are the main voters they want.
Since we can't call out Trolls and Bad Faith posters and the Ignore function doesn't actually ignore it. Add
"mmo-champion.com##li.postbitignored"
to your ublock or adblock filter to actually ignore ignored posters. Now just need a way to ignore responses to them as well.
Guns: more essential than voting according to Republicans. Toooootallly not a fascist party or anything.
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-Louis Brandeis