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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
personally, sometimes i think you should have to be over 25 to vote.
some of those kids, fresh out of high school, some of them i swear to God could barely read... let alone help decide the direction our entire nation should take for the next 4 years.
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Two things:
Raise the voting age to 25? Fine, as long as no one can enlist or be drafted/recruited into the military until they're 25 either. If you're not old enough to take part in electing a govt, then you shouldn't be asked to risk your life going wherever they want to send you.
Raise the voting age to 25 because the "kids" below it are too dumb, naive, uneducated, ignorant, etc. to know how or what to vote for or to understand the finer points of their civic responsibilities? NONSENSE. If we're going to use those criteria to determine who gets to vote and who doesn't, it shouldn't have anything to do with age. It should involve an IQ test for starters, then perhaps a basic vocabulary/reading comprehension test, then maybe some test to determine if the person knows enough about the country's history/laws/etc. to qualify.
I'm guessing most regular voters OVER the age of 25 couldn't pass that last test, so let's not rag on the younger set as though ignorance and stupidity are a function of age.