California Lawmakers Propose Voting Age of 14

[tambourine-man]

Originally posted by span
the younger you are the more liberal you tend to vote since liberalism is based mostly on emotions with very little common sense, therefore it's understandable that Dems would want younger voters.

John Vasconcellos also initiated the horribly bad "self esteem" program that actually did the exact opposite of what it was intended to do.

WOW. We're almost in agreement. You're taking the old adage of "socialism is something you grow out of" and applying it to mainstream politics. Fair enough. I don't necessarily agree with it, but this is a monumentally stupid idea - something similar was proposed in Britain about 5 months ago.

Personally, just because I don't believe that 14 (or even 16-year olds) have a full grasp on the political fray, isn't the reason I oppose it - christ, there's plenty of 30-year olds who have as much grasp. I'm opposed, simply because I'd hate to see children being dragged into the political shit that we've created - they've enough formative issues to contend with as it is.

If they're that intersted in politics, then bravo. A couple more years won't hurt.

--TM