The Democrats are at it again. It seems that President Trump’s victory in 2016 spooked progressives to the point that they are willing to propose any idea — no matter how foolish — to stack the odds in their favor. They have made several asinine suggestions that span from subverting the electoral college to coming up with excuses to keep Trump’s name off of the ballot in 2020.
Nancy Pelosi
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently made another silly suggestion: Why don’t we lower the voting age to 16? Yes, that’s right. The top Democrat in the House thinks it’s a good idea to allow children to vote. “I think it’s really important to capture kids when they are in high school when they are interested in all of this, when they are learning about government, to be able to vote,” she said at a recent press conference.
One might be tempted to believe that the Democrats are getting desperate. Fortunately, a recent poll reveals that American voters are not on board with the speaker’s proposal.
Voters Say “No” To Lowered Voting Age
Earlier this week, Rasmussen released the results of a survey showing that only 17% of likely U.S. voters approve of lowering the legal voting age from 18 to 16 while 74% are opposed to the suggestion. Not a surprising result, right?
The majority of Americans understand that teenagers have not reached the level of maturity required to decide which officials serve in the government. Indeed, the human brain does not finish maturing until the mid-20s. Perhaps prohibiting people from voting until they grow out of eating tide pods and throwing cheese on dogs might be an appropriate policy after all. The idea is about as silly as trying to regulate cow farts — oh wait, they’re trying for that, too.
Will They Ever Stop?
The motivation behind this latest Democratic suggestion is readily apparent to anyone with a modicum of common sense. Progressives are well aware of the fact that younger Americans are more likely to vote for Democratic candidates. Indeed, in last year’s midterm elections, 67% of voters under the age of 30 voted for a House Democrat. Moreover, public schools have increasingly incorporated leftist ideas in the curriculum, which makes them even more favorable towards the left.
The Democrats are engaged in the political equivalent of throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, and it does not appear that they are relenting in their efforts to sway the odds in their favor. So why are they not relying on good old-fashioned campaigning and debate? Perhaps it is because they are losing the argument on many different issues.
Americans are not in favor of the Green New Deal. While most don’t want to build a wall along the southern border, they do agree with President Trump’s overall approach to illegal immigration. More than that, the economy is still healthy, with record-low unemployment numbers. The reality is clear: The Democrats are not winning the important arguments, and they are concerned that they may not be able to gain political power through working within the established system.
This is why they are pushing to give illegals the right to vote. This is why they favor the National Popular Vote compact. It is why they are floating the idea of packing the Supreme Court with more justices. Progressives seem to be frantically looking for any way — fair or unfair — to gain an edge over the GOP. If this is the case, the prospects for a GOP victory in 2020 might be even better than it appears.
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6 Comments
lazarus
The Chinese Firedrill known as the Democrat Party, collectively and in all areas of politics, has gone so far beyond the pale in search of relevancy that every traitor Democrat Candidate hopeful must speak the absolute and total RIDICULOUS to be seen or heard above the din of the “stupid” already spoken and suggested by these morons.
Diogenes
I wouldn’t call the proposal “desperate”. I’d call it calculated.
I would like any of the staff writers here to assemble a comprehensive list of all the strategies in the agenda of the Progressive/Socialist/Democrat Left. It would be a very long list. It would help to post it prominently to keep us aware of how pervasive it is.
The Leftist agenda is like a many headed Hydra. It doesn’t matter that we consider many of their numerous proposals absurd. Most of the things that are now laws and social rules today would have been considered unthinkably absurd several decades ago. These things need to be taken seriously, not just laughed off.
In Greek mythology, the Hydra was a giant water snake with many heads that lived in a swamp near Lerna in the land of Argos. The number of heads is variously reported from as few as 5 to more than 100. The second of the 12 labors of Hercules was to kill the Hydra. Eurystheus sent Heracles to slay the Hydra, which Hera had raised just to slay Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna, where the Hydra dwelt, Heracles covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes.
Cut off one item of the agenda and they immediately advance another – on many fronts: economic, cultural, etc. The Left is more intellectually organized and more determined than the Right to advance their agenda, one small step at a time. That’s calculated. That’s what Fabian Socialism is.
Do the Republicans have any agenda? Hardly. At best all they can do is offer resistance to the advances of the Left. The RINOs don’t even want to do that.
It is fitting that the Hydra was a snake and a swamp dweller. Its fumes seem to have poisoned the minds of virtually everyone in the swamp of government. Everyone is afraid to do battle with the Hydra. And so our nation and our culture continues to drift slowly Leftward, mired in the swamp.
Ellen Peba
Abortion is very popular among the Left. How about if we drop voting age to Birth, then permit parents to vote for their newborns. See? More Conservatives will be elected. Let’s drop voting age!!
Anthony Snyder
Perhaps voting should be deferred till after a person is finished with their formal education.
Actually, I watched a show, as a teenager, with almost this exact scenario on a science fiction themed cable channel.
The Teenagers were of course, easily manipulated, while people far younger than Miss Pelosi were declared automatically senile and therefore ineligible to vote.
Just one piece of the never-ending barrage of absurdity.
ColtPython79
This is not a problem. The average 16 year old has a about a 2 second attention span, that of a gnat. They are only interested in sex, drugs and social media with their friends, not some wrinkled old democrat.
rusty4.5
Many on the Left have the emotional and intellectual maturity of 16 year olds, ergo, they think 16 years olds are capable of voting. (I still can’t get that image out of my head of Pelosi wiggling around while showing off ‘her’ gavel. Ewwww. Ditto your comment on ‘some old wrinkled democrat’.