Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections?

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

A hundred years ago an argument could have been made for 16-year-olds being allowed to vote. The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 following the First World War.

Today? Not a chance. High school kids can’t be bothered to read two paragraphs for school, if they can read beyond a forth-grade level, that is. They get all of their information from social media, and are easily influenced by it.

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