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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
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.
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Ok... thats fair.
Lower the drinking age to 18
if your old enough to be sent to some far off crap hole to die face down in your own intestines... by God you're old enough to pop the top on a Miller Lite for Christ's sake.
I pretty much agree with you Frau.
but... my age crack was more or less a half serious joke.
in all seriousness
there is NOTHING wrong with the voting age... its the educational system.
if you cant read or write or perform mathematics on an acceptable level, you dont graduate high school and you are not a candidate to receive any sort of financial aid for college/ tech schools or career schools etc.
I think the root of the problem doesnt lie so much with age.. the root of the problem is that our educational system is in the toilet, the students dont care, and the politicians dont either.