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Young Folks: Exercise Your Right Not to Vote — Please!

June 15, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Burt Prelutsky
Horatio
2008-06-18 10:54:44

Try this one on for size: Only honorably discharged military veterans should be able to vote. This is based upon the premise that if you’re not prepared to put your life on the line for the nation-state of which you are a citizen, why should you have any say in how it’s run?

A hat tip to the late great Robert A. Heinlein in his novel “Starship Troopers”