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Not to sound ageist, but I firmly believe voting privileges should be revoked when you retire.
If you need to wait 18 years to vote you shouldn't be able to vote once you are 18 years from average life expectancy (as in life expectancy is 80, you can vote until you're 62, not after).
Imagine how much focus would be put on healthcare if that were the case...
Dumb and arbitrary, just how we like it!
If it works one way it should work the other way as well! You're too young to be responsible enough to vote? Then you can be too old to care enough about the future to vote!
Yes, I meant 18 years after birth = 18 years before average age of death, so politicians would need to either reduce 18 to something lower or would have to work to increase life expectancy.
I'm not sure about voting but probably about being elected
I would think that removing the barriers to voting that affect younger voters is the better option, along with getting rid of the electoral college and allowing felons to vote. Taking away voting rights for certain classes of citizens is a slippery slope, especially when the root problem is some votes count more than others and many potential votes never make it to the polls.
they way leaders emerge from certain personalities, and get so corrupted, i think we'd be better off with random selection.
THIS is the way. Make political service be similar to jury duty.
"no taxation without representation"
I wonder if you'll still firmly believe that when you retire.
I don't trust anyone with one foot in the grave to make long term decisions that benefit young people more than themselves any more than I trust a small child to make sound logical laws about bedtime.
Well we all vote in our own best interests, as I'm sure you do too. The art of good governance is to provide an environment in which everyone can thrive.
The problem here is not old people who don't vote in your best interest, it's the government that aren't ensuring everyone is catered for.