Maybe I"m missing something here, but it appears to me the NH law is designed to prevent ACORN b.s. like having college students vote locally AND by absentee ballot in their home states. The MSM, as per its usual modus operandi, decide to tie in this quote to sell the idea that it's a nefarious plan by the Republicans to take voting rights away from college kids.
Addressing the Republican guy's quote, I can see why you would find it upsetting but on the other hand, check back with yourself in about 20 years. There are times when I think lowering the voting age to 18 was a huge mistake. You can't even legally drink alcohol but somehow you still are mature enough to choose our leaders. If it were up to me, I'd bump up the voting age to 25 with exceptions for active duty military, married people, or those who can pass a civics test. Why? While there are smart, aware young adults--yes, even those who are liberal--and utter dopes my age, remembering how things were back in the day, the majority of my peers didn't really know what they thought or why. Even my own views were a confusing mess. Many are still forming their opinions and for most college students, those opinions are being forged by peers, Marxist professors, and pop culture. Most of their concerns are self-centered. After all, most of them are unmarried, have no children, have limited job experience (and likely at the bottom of the rung), have never employed anyone, and don't own property. Most don't earn enough to pay very much in taxes if at all. They're just old enough to know the world's not a fair place and still young enough to believe you can correct that with the right government policies. Democrats also get a lot of mileage from promising young people access to all of the sex they want without any sort of responsibility or judgment (abortion, government subsidized birth control, even gay rights) which of course sounds great when you're 19. It's not so much stupidity but having limited life experience and being in a different place in life from say, a 45-year-old business owner with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
There's a way to make inroads with young voters but if you ask me, what the Republicans ought to be doing is doing all it can to reverse the leftist stranglehold on education at every level.
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Date: 2011-03-11 03:34 am (UTC)Addressing the Republican guy's quote, I can see why you would find it upsetting but on the other hand, check back with yourself in about 20 years. There are times when I think lowering the voting age to 18 was a huge mistake. You can't even legally drink alcohol but somehow you still are mature enough to choose our leaders. If it were up to me, I'd bump up the voting age to 25 with exceptions for active duty military, married people, or those who can pass a civics test. Why? While there are smart, aware young adults--yes, even those who are liberal--and utter dopes my age, remembering how things were back in the day, the majority of my peers didn't really know what they thought or why. Even my own views were a confusing mess. Many are still forming their opinions and for most college students, those opinions are being forged by peers, Marxist professors, and pop culture. Most of their concerns are self-centered. After all, most of them are unmarried, have no children, have limited job experience (and likely at the bottom of the rung), have never employed anyone, and don't own property. Most don't earn enough to pay very much in taxes if at all. They're just old enough to know the world's not a fair place and still young enough to believe you can correct that with the right government policies. Democrats also get a lot of mileage from promising young people access to all of the sex they want without any sort of responsibility or judgment (abortion, government subsidized birth control, even gay rights) which of course sounds great when you're 19. It's not so much stupidity but having limited life experience and being in a different place in life from say, a 45-year-old business owner with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
There's a way to make inroads with young voters but if you ask me, what the Republicans ought to be doing is doing all it can to reverse the leftist stranglehold on education at every level.