Desperate to improve their electoral fortunes, the Welsh Labour Party government is putting through new legislation that will allow children to vote in future council elections.
This means that anyone aged 16 or over will be able to make decisions that impact mature people and their families.
This is terrifying.
The Labour Party are trying to make out this is some kind of victory — that this is fair, somehow — but we all know it's just a clever way of increasing their vote share. Now that Labour has lost practically all its seats in Scotland, they need to start taking swing seats and Conservative safe seats in order to form a government.
And while all this is going on, I can't help but wonder whether we should be doing the opposite. For as long as Millennials refuse to grow up, why aren't we thinking about increasing the voter age?
If people don't want to be responsible members of society, then why should they get to make important decisions at all? Just a thought!
That’s it in a nutshell!
Correction.
*should read ‘some UNqualified comment’**
But honestly, 80% of people who are eligble to vote do not follow world or domestic issues. Period.
I will add that I know 16 year olds that see through people like Trudeau. In fact I know many who can communicate ideas more thoughtfully and far more effectively than Trudeau.
The majority of voters use CBC and MSM for their up to the minute news cycle. And that’s about what they know; sound and video bites on CBC aren’t quite good enough. Do you think?
Most voters never do their homework. No cross references. No analysis undertaken to learn of consequences to a polical leader’s bull**** promises. Just take some qualified comment from Twitter at face value.
Of the remaining 20% there are 50% people like me who will never vote Socialism, Totalitarianism or Marxism. Period. Trudeau is a combination of all three of these groups. The other 50% of the 20% will vote ABC.
So basically if your party can fool the masses (80% ers) who are easily fooled because they don’t do their homework, we end up with a PM like Trudeau. The end result our Country is worse off because of it.
That’s all Canadians, so what’s your point? Even people on welfare still pay taxes.
You don’t want young people to vote, because you know that they would vote Liberal. If conservatism was some hip thing among the youth, you would have no problem with them voting – informed or not.
It’s so easy to see through your bullshit.
World: we are so screwed.
Normal people in a centuries old democracy just don’t behave this way!