This feels like a big shift for it actually to happen, but I think it’s the right decision overall.
The idea that 16 legally a person can (with some caveats) live independently in their own home and raise a family, and pay all the relevant tax along the way, but not have their say in elections has always seemed incongruous to me. It’s the young who feel the political outcomes the longest after all.
How many young people will actually turn out is another question politically though.
Haha. They’re changing the voting age. Not your ability to have a tattoo, cigarettes or get married without your parents consent or hundreds of other things.
It’s about keeping power. Not about helping you or me as citizens.
This feels like a big shift for it actually to happen, but I think it’s the right decision overall.
The idea that 16 legally a person can (with some caveats) live independently in their own home and raise a family, and pay all the relevant tax along the way, but not have their say in elections has always seemed incongruous to me. It’s the young who feel the political outcomes the longest after all.
How many young people will actually turn out is another question politically though.
Haha. They’re changing the voting age. Not your ability to have a tattoo, cigarettes or get married without your parents consent or hundreds of other things.
It’s about keeping power. Not about helping you or me as citizens.