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Do you honestly think that a majority of your peers can handle that kind of responsibility? Disregarding your ideas for this test (I'll get to that in a minute) we're not going to start litigating for a minority of "oppressed" teenagers. Unless you can prove that the majority and not the minority of them have the requisite level of maturity for voting than no one is going touch this, especially since 17-year-olds are only a year away from being allowed to vote anyway.About this "test" of yours...general knowledge proves nothing. I'm something of a history nerd and have been for years; I could recite the names of every President of the United States when I was a freshman as well as spout off the major parties of the United States in every period of its development and define the political agendas of said parties. That being said, I was certainly not ready to be a voting citizen of the United States - I had all the background knowledge but none of the requisite maturity. You can't teach maturity; it is earned over time and experience.All that being said, senior citizens have been around for a long time, have a lot of experience with how the world works and have watched it change, giving them a different, but no less valid view on how things ought to be run. There is absolutely no reason that their votes should be disregarded and there is no need to increase the voting demographics in the lower reaches simply to balance out the senior vote.While age and wisdom are not always equated, how often are youth and wisdom?
Do you honestly think that a majority of your peers can handle that kind of responsibility? Disregarding your ideas for this test (I'll get to that in a minute) we're not going to start litigating for a minority of "oppressed" teenagers. Unless you can prove that the majority and not the minority of them have the requisite level of maturity for voting than no one is going touch this, especially since 17-year-olds are only a year away from being allowed to vote anyway.
About this "test" of yours...general knowledge proves nothing. I'm something of a history nerd and have been for years; I could recite the names of every President of the United States when I was a freshman as well as spout off the major parties of the United States in every period of its development and define the political agendas of said parties. That being said, I was certainly not ready to be a voting citizen of the United States - I had all the background knowledge but none of the requisite maturity. You can't teach maturity; it is earned over time and experience.
All that being said, senior citizens have been around for a long time, have a lot of experience with how the world works and have watched it change, giving them a different, but no less valid view on how things ought to be run. There is absolutely no reason that their votes should be disregarded and there is no need to increase the voting demographics in the lower reaches simply to balance out the senior vote.
While age and wisdom are not always equated, how often are youth and wisdom?
