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ThatOwlWoman (03-18-2019)
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Stretch (03-18-2019)
Cypress (03-18-2019), ThatOwlWoman (03-18-2019)
Most old people suffer dementia or mental lapses, and thus, can't make an informed decision because their brains are deteriorating.
All the arguments you're making against 16 year olds voting are the same arguments that can be made against letting those over retirement age vote too.
If there was a cutoff age for voting, the GOP would never win an election again.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
Cypress (03-18-2019), ThatOwlWoman (03-18-2019)
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Much obliged. I really do not see how a moderately well-informed 16 year old could make a worse choice than voting for an unintelligent Reality TV entertainer to lead the Free World - like some adults on this forum did.
In principle, it really comes down to having an informed citizenry. That is more important than age or life experience. Again, there were plenty of adult, college educated Republicans on this board who thought invading Iraq was an awesome idea.
I like your insight about civics classes. If it isn't already, that should be a requirement of all primary and secondary education.
Also, citizens can be trusted to make reasonably wise choices - if they are adequately informed. We obviously need a better media, better journalistic standards, better sources of information, more transparency, and perhaps we should consider bringing the fairness doctrine back. The problem that Fox News has created, is a media model of selling propaganda camoflauged as news.
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LV426 (03-18-2019), ThatOwlWoman (03-18-2019)
Checkerboard Strangler (03-22-2019)
we could have had an unrepentant interventionist who never owned up to her primary role of regime change in Libya,
or meddling in Syria ( her Friends of Syria initiative) and who never would have tried detente with North Korea.
She never would have tried to grow GDP or reworked NAFTA while pursing trade reform with China.
She would have been the status quo of ignoring economic growth in favor of more "fair distribution"
which just means smaller but equal amounts of the pie for everyone.
The American people wanted something better -Trump has delivered peace and prosperity
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Darth Omar (03-18-2019), dukkha (03-18-2019), Truth Detector (03-19-2019)
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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