I think it’s a good thing yeah. 16 year olds can join the military and pay taxes if they work, so they should have a choice in what government to elect.
I see it as 16 year olds are the most easiest to manipulate on social media, and that this does not bode well for progressive politics.
At the same time, what’s the actual peak age of “can’t be manipulated on social media”, and as blacknight says below - if they can work and die for our country at that age, they might as well be allowed to vote
We know the system is broken, but the people with the power to fix it have no interest in fixing it. At least they’re improving it in some way, makes a change from the usual “and then it got worse”.
It’s an odd issue for me. I’m not against it, but the number of politically aware 16yos I’ve met would be close to zero. That said, I don’t think it really gets better by 18, so I have no good argument either way.
It just doesn’t strike me as anything but an attempt to gerrymander along demographic lines and so I view it with cynicism.
I would say I’m wiser now at twice the age, but I and most of my class at school had fairly reasonable political views from my recollection; maybe a bit naive and simplistic in a few cases, and a little bit of groupthink going on, and at least one die hard communist (though I imagine he still is, so I doubt that affects much either way).
16yo is old enough to do pretty much all the other big decisions of an adult, so why not voting, they’re not really treated like children anymore by our society.
Do people actually see this as a good thing?
For me it’s just messing with the edges of a broken system.
I think it’s a good thing yeah. 16 year olds can join the military and pay taxes if they work, so they should have a choice in what government to elect.
I see it as 16 year olds are the most easiest to manipulate on social media, and that this does not bode well for progressive politics.
At the same time, what’s the actual peak age of “can’t be manipulated on social media”, and as blacknight says below - if they can work and die for our country at that age, they might as well be allowed to vote
Boomers: am i a joke to you?
yes, but also fuck no and please don’t vote with your feelings
Don’t let perfection get in the way of progress.
We know the system is broken, but the people with the power to fix it have no interest in fixing it. At least they’re improving it in some way, makes a change from the usual “and then it got worse”.
It’s an odd issue for me. I’m not against it, but the number of politically aware 16yos I’ve met would be close to zero. That said, I don’t think it really gets better by 18, so I have no good argument either way.
It just doesn’t strike me as anything but an attempt to gerrymander along demographic lines and so I view it with cynicism.
I would say I’m wiser now at twice the age, but I and most of my class at school had fairly reasonable political views from my recollection; maybe a bit naive and simplistic in a few cases, and a little bit of groupthink going on, and at least one die hard communist (though I imagine he still is, so I doubt that affects much either way).
16yo is old enough to do pretty much all the other big decisions of an adult, so why not voting, they’re not really treated like children anymore by our society.