{"id":21241,"date":"2022-12-01T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T02:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/?p=21241"},"modified":"2023-03-11T23:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T15:44:31","slug":"lower-voting-age-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/lower-voting-age-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower voting age? Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Listening to a video conversation this morning, I heard that the proposal to lower the voting age from 20 to 18 in Taiwan didn’t get through. That didn’t get my attention as much as the expressed disappointment of the person presenting that fact. I am not surprised at his expression of disappointment, I am just too jaded with that sort of puerile hubris. Those who want to rule the world, which, according to pop group Tears for Fears means “Everybody”, prefer that younger people with empty noggins be forced to vote, since immature voters are far more easily swayed by verbal virtuosity than older folk who have experienced the viccissitudes life has to offer. Me? Raise the voting age to thirty, I might say? Well, yes and no.<\/span><\/p>\n