Lowering the voting age
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In the UK, the voting age has been (or is in the process of being) lowered to 16. Naturally, there's a lot of panic-stricken "adults" trying to undermine youth with all sorts of nonsense regarding lack of information, too much disinformation, voting based on emotion, and even lack of life experience - the last being what was fobbed off on me when I pointed out that adults vote in the same manner this person was trying to denigrate youth for doing. I said:
- Adult life experience has not led us in a beneficial direction - colonisation, genocide, neoliberal capitalism, deliberate impoverishment, ableism, sexism, racism, deliberate starvation of vulnerable populations, the lack of punishment of men guilty of rape and paedophilia, marital assault ... and that's just for starters.
Shockingly, they have failed to respond.