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NO! Old people with outdated ideas tend to have a disproportionately large voice at the voting booths as it is. Most of those ignorant young adults you generalized don't even vote anyway.
You might want to consider the fact that when ideas/concepts/morals, etc., stay around for a few centuries, there is very good and solid reasons for that. You might also want to consider the fact that "young adults" have not lived long enough nor experienced enough of life to be able to put it all together and "learn from experience." They would be far more ahead if they would "listen" to their elders and apply the results of life already experienced to their own lives.
Return to the good old days of 1770 and the rules/regs of voter qualification first put in place then.
Something like this ->For the most part, American colonists adopted the voter qualifications that they had known in England. Typically, a voter had to be a free, adult, male resident of his county, a member of the predominant religious group, and a "freeholder." A freeholder owned land worth a certain amount of money. Colonists believed only freeholders should vote because only they had a permanent stake in the stability of society. Freeholders also paid the bulk of the taxes. Other persons, as the famous English lawyer William Blackstone put it, "are in so mean a situation as to be esteemed to have no will of their own." <-
You might want to consider the fact that when ideas/concepts/morals, etc., stay around for a few centuries, there is very good and solid reasons for that. You might also want to consider the fact that "young adults" have not lived long enough nor experienced enough of life to be able to put it all together and "learn from experience." They would be far more ahead if they would "listen" to their elders and apply the results of life already experienced to their own lives.
There are too many bad ideas/concepts/morals that are hard to shake off, and are more commonly held by the elders of society. Racism, sexism, false propaganda (e.g. "reefer madness"), aversion to technology...
Sure there is valuable information that is not new, this is not disputed. But falsehoods previously held by society continue to fall by the wayside as time goes by - and in general, the older people get, the less they keep up with that sort of thing.
I myself am in my 20s and think we are not cut out to make decisions that risk the fate of the country. I know how people my age think and it's scary. Most of my age group is full of wanna be hippies... Free everything, and easy living.
I know there is an exception to this generalization, but for the most part it seems most are not informed enough about long term consequences of their votes.
I am sure we can find more demographic groups that voted in a way you don't like and who must thus be excluded from voting
I am sure we can find more demographic groups that voted in a way you don't like and who must thus be excluded from voting
It's interesting how many conservatives are constantly looking for a group to blame for their problems, isn't it? Gays, Muslims, blacks, young people, etc. The list never ends.
I would agree with the exception of any convicted felon. felons should be made to forfeit any right to vote.
Also illegals and non-citizens.
I disagree. After you serve your sentence, you should be a free American again, with all of the rights that other Americans have, including the right to vote.
And yes, obviously, illegals and non-citizens don't have a right to vote. They never have, contrary to what I think some people believe.
Here it depends. Being a permanent resident without citizenship, I am allowed to vote on a local level, but not in national elections.
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