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Voting Rights on a Slippery Slope

November 30, 2007 - 12:30 am - by Roger Clegg
Rob
2007-11-30 03:23:43

Great article, though I have a couple of thoughts to add with regards to lowering the voting age. First and foremost, it is inconceivably illogical that the Left wants to lower the voting age from 18 to 16. If 18 year olds, who are old enough to enlist in the military, fighting & making life and death decisions everyday on battlefields across the globe, are deemed “NOT mature enough” to purchase alcohol, why on earth would anyone believe that a 16 year old has a greater maturity to cast a vote which carries far greater implications and responsibilities. This logic sends them mixed messsage, “okay we want you to join the military and fight for the country at 18…but don’t believe you’re mature enough to drink for another 3 years, but oh by the way, we hold that people 2 years to your junior are competent enough to vote to send you across the globe”. Enough is enough.