A voting rights bill was drawn up recently, and yesterday....it was put to a vote in the House.....it failed (125-302). Curiously, the 125 in favor were all Democrats, and 93 Democrats voted with the Republicans to fail the measure.
The basic agenda? Allow the voting age to go down to 16.
If you walked into a bar to bring this idea up or sat down on some neighbor's porch....it's probably about a 99-percent chance that you wouldn't exactly see any wisdom in this idea. I would imagine ten-percent of the population, after a decent bit of pondering....might even agree that the age ought to be raised from 18....to 20 or 21.
My thought would be...if 16 is legal for voting, then it ought to be legal for buying booze, cigarettes', and getting married (without consent). I don't see anyone running out to legitimize other adult 'pleasures' for the 'kids'.
My other thought here....why select 16? If this was such a swell idea.....it seems like 15 would be just as good an age as 16. Plus those 14-year-old kids would want their chance as well.
I'm all for flipping the age downward....even to 14....if you just allowed the booze, cigarette and no-consent marriage deal to be part of the landscape as well. For some reason, I don't think the Democrats want to discuss that situation.
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