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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Hear! Hear!

Finally! A talking head with whom I can agree:

Fox News host and former Victoria's Secret model claims 'hot' young women are usually ignorant and should NOT vote or be allowed on juries because 'they don't get it'


Yes, and it's not just "hot young women"; the key word in the that sentence is "young." Twenty-one was a viable voting age 200 years ago. It is not viable today, even less so 18.

At 18 years of age, people are still trying to figure out how to act like adults (note that I said "act like," not "be"). Their highest priority is who they're going to sleep with and how soon that will happen. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it, because we've all been there. I voted once while in the Corps, and only then because the battalion commander browbeat us into "doing our civic duty." Those rare exceptions of truly politically-aware teens don't compensate for the damage caused by the 99% running in the herd.

The young are ignorant and naive of the world, prime targets for manipulative people. People like politicians. It is, of course, too late to do anything about it in the United States. Any proposal that infringes upon the absolute blanket universal suffrage which the Donks and Trunks have spent over a century carefully crafting will be shouted down by the aforementioned manipulators, with the Democrats -- primary predators on the young and naive -- leading the charge. Hell, I'm surprised they haven't tried to lower the voting age to 16, under the "logic" that if you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to vote. Give it another fifty years and the logic will be that if you're old enough to have an orgasm, you're old enough to vote. Idiocracy, here we come.

No, as nice as the thought of comprehensive electoral reform might be, it's not going to happen. Frankly, we're fucked. The country has sailed too far down Shit River. We're caught in the current and we're hearing the first rumblings of the cataracts ahead.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

don't give up just yet. pull up the 100 year election map of usa.

some big swings from dumbass fdr voters and such

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