Voting Age Should Be 25

Young people in the military are supervised by older people. No general or admiral is younger than 25, nor is the commander-in-chief. In the metaphorical voting booth, no supervision takes place. As for young girls getting pregnant, the answer is not to kill their unborn children. Have you even listened to an abortion?



If you can listen to that video, and still be for abortion, you are sick. Plain and simple.

 

Yet still true.

 

While I disagree with what you say, I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

 

I am not “for abortion” but I am against forcing a woman (or girl) to be an incubator to the state.

That you believe they should have zero rights and not be able to even vote until 25 because your team cannot win elections without gerrymandering, propaganda, electoral fraud and now trying to ban an entire generation from voting — the call is coming from within the house.

It isn’t them that’s the issue — it’s Republican ideology

 

As long as he is over 25 apparently

 

Not going to happen, sorry.

 

Probably not. But it should.

 

Wow! torturing logic this much should be against the Geneva Convention! This stuff should be used to teach what 'motivated reasoning' looks like.

One individual vote has a very small potential impact on society. That same person driving a car or owning a gun (which I also mentioned) can result in other people dying pretty easily. So can them working in a dangerous job such as construction. A poor choice to marry can ruin multiple lives, while the knock on effect of bad parenting is significant. All of those choices have FAR greater direct impact on individuals than that same person's vote. So if you are after 'unparalleled gravity' any of those beat a single vote.

But lets be honest here, none of this has anything to do with a genuine discussion of the impact of under-25s doing all the things they legally do all the time. It is about yet one more Republican once again trying to stop people they think will vote differently from voting. Every time Republicans underperform their own expectations at an election we get a succession of threads & posts all trying to normalize the idea that the problem is voters and the solution is to limit their ability to influence government.

You are fooling no one. The pretence that this is a serious discussion is just tragic.

 

No, you'd happily remove my ability to do that or to vote if you thought you could. We both know it.

 

Wow, it's like you completely missed the point of the thread.

 

Not really. Democrats are more apt to censor than conservatives. The Hunter Biden laptop cover-up is a pretty notorious case in point. But I digress.

 

A 25 year old has an adult mind and 25 years of experience. That is sufficient for the task in question.

Perhaps, if experience is what you require, then a 12 month course on the duties and expectations of a senator, should be a prerequisite, for ALL of those wanting to enter same, irrespective of their age.

 

Let's have a real nuanced political discussion about this. In reality, the power of the purse lies not with the President, but with the House of Representatives. And each party has its own poison pill. The Democrats with their social pet projects, and Republicans who love their missile toys.

Given this, balancing a budget has proven extremely difficult and presidents from both parties have wanted certain items cut from the budget. Right now, Military spending in particular is even more out of control and its what's driving government costs at the moment.

We tried to fix this problem with line-item veto but the SCOTUS ruled it unconstitutional.

 

It is a bit odd though, no?

I ask for a commonsense, scientifically backed proposal, so those making the decisions for this country are mentally best equipped to do so, and this is essentially the Democrats' response so far:



Sad, but predictable.

 

We are not taking about brain development, we ARE talking about brain maturity which is reached at 25 according to science.
What possible reason would you have for not following the science?

 

I doubt anyone on the left voted 2X for an 2X impeached loser.
That would be brainwashed dumbed voters on the right.

 

Look at you, defending the biggest spender in the history of presidents.
Limited gov't and balanced budgets my arse. No one believes the big borrow and spend R's anymore on budgets.

 

Just make it so only white male land owners can vote.
Then all will be just fine. No matter the age.

 

You started a thread advocating removing the right to vote from millions of people. That is more censorious than anything I have ever imagined doing.

 

It’s cute you think you are making a point that can even get off the ground much less go over anyone’s head.

 

I think if you are not paying bills, you don't get to vote

The end

 

All my suspicions about your capacity to reason have been confirmed here.

 

You can imbue knowledge in course, but you cannot imbue wisdom.

 

No, I didn't. Those people, once they get to the age of 25, will, barring any conditions to remove the franchise, be able to vote.

 

You don't care for smorgasbords?