Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections?
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 week agoteenage adolescence as a concept didn’t exist until the late 19th, early 20th century. large a byproduct of the creation of public education systems.
and in the 21st century was are certainly expanding it into your 20s, for sure. I met plenty of folks in their 30s or older who are still totally dependent on their parents financially and emotionally.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 week ago
yeah problem with this notion is a party could eliminate large swatches of the right to vote with folks just by acting like douches and letting wealth disparity run rampant.
AskewLord@piefed.social 1 week ago
rich people don’t have much of an issue with that though. where i live lots of rich liberal progressives eager talk about banning people from voting based on education level and wealth level.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 week ago
I get the frustration with dealing with stupidity but yeah we know historically that you simply cannot tie it to things like that as it is to easy to manipulate. I recall some country required a college degree to run for office and then like the pres put pressue on institutions to revoke peoples degrees.