If you're cool with sending an 18 year old to battle, you should be cool with letting them vote
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10 is old enough to be a mom.
16 is old enough to fall into a meat vat.
18 is old enough to give them a rifle.
Old enough to raise a whole ass human, slaughter edible living things, slaughter edible flying living things... but not old enough to decide what changes affect your community.
Wow.
18 is old enough to give them a rifle.
Actually 17 with parental consent.
12 is old enough to enter the workforce without a permit or parental consent.
I did hunter safety when I was 12 in Wisconsin.
Man, the GOP just loves making the core tenet of Democracy inaccessible to anyone and everyone who isn’t rich and white.
Let's be honest: if youth these days were inclined toward the right, Republican contenders would be fighting to 'defend' youths' right to vote from non-existent left-wing 'threats'.
I'd rather go the other way and restrict voting to folks under 70. At least 18 year olds are going to have to live with the consequences.
This demographic I'm not popular with shouldn't be allowed to vote
Sounds like the terrorist GOP
Misleading headline. What it should say is:
GOP Contender Vivek Ramaswamy Thinks Voting is A Privilege to be Earned
Yeah, while I don't want to restrict anyone's voting, any logic against younger people voting is not nearly as strong as logic against older people voting. It's not just that they won't be a part of the world for as long (that said, it's entirely possible a 70 year old gets another 2 decades, so I don't think that's necessarily compelling reasoning). Mental decline is also an issue and arguably more relevant.
The alt right doesn't like young voters because they claim they're too immature. But senility is very similar on the opposite end of the spectrum. Senile voters can be simply disconnected from reality and thus unable to make good choices.
That said, you can't just draw an age limit and expect that to cover senility, since one person can be 65 and senile while another is 90 and of sound mind. So I don't think we should be restricting voting on either side of the age range (though we should let people as young as 16 vote -- we already trust them to do dangerous things like drive).
Yeah, well I feel 37 is too young to run for president. Maybe he should pause his campaign.
I saw that interview where said democrats are genetically different than republicans, so fuck him.
Can go die in a war at 18, but can't buy a gun until you're 21
Can't drink beer until you're 21, but can vote in general elections at 18
We need to just pick one and go with it, either 18 or 21
I was in a US history class in high school when the teacher said that the drinking age used to be 18, and the voting age used to be 21, but they switched places. He then asked "Why?" And started calling on random students.
When I got picked, my answer was "Fewer drunk voters?"
Wasn't there this whole defining thing for America? Something about taxation without representation, right? So the 18 year olds have to pay taxes on the wages they earn by working and therefore should be able to vote. The retired, however...
Coming from the guy who never voted until he was 30. Who has never had any experience in politics at all...
Ramaswamy ding-dong.
If you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to vote. Period.
I kind of agree. 16 is way too young to legally drive, 18 is way too young to be able to join the military, 60-whatever is way too old for retirement, etc.
This person doesn't think anything, he is paid to parrot statements for Supreme Court Justice owning billionaires.
"...gonna be on the trail... See you out the trail!"
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