2024 GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy proposes raising voting age to 25


Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing that the U.S. raise the voting age to 25, with exceptions for those 18 and older who serve in the military, work as emergency responders or take a naturalization test.


Easy peasey, just amend the Constitution.

(But it shows you they see the existential problem they're facing)

(August 19, 2023 at 8:53 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: 2024 GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy proposes raising voting age to 25


Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing that the U.S. raise the voting age to 25, with exceptions for those 18 and older who serve in the military, work as emergency responders or take a naturalization test.


Easy peasey, just amend the Constitution.

(But it shows you they see the existential problem they're facing)

Yup.

All those damned young-uns who have been brought up with nonsense like decency, equality, generosity, and all those other things the gop hate.

(August 19, 2023 at 8:53 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: 2024 GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy proposes raising voting age to 25


Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing that the U.S. raise the voting age to 25, with exceptions for those 18 and older who serve in the military, work as emergency responders or take a naturalization test.


Easy peasey, just amend the Constitution.

(But it shows you they see the existential problem they're facing)

The thing that strikes me as unusual is that one of his specified 18-25 exemptions is those who have taken a naturalization test. Does this mean that immigrants would technically have more rights than native-born citizens? 

And thinking about it more, specifically the fact that 18-25-year-old native-borns would have to put their lives on the line in order to vote reminds me very much of a movie I love:







I can remember years ago that an off-hand remark I made about watching Starship Troopers launched into a discussion between Gawj and Boru about why the book was so much better than the film. Shit like this is literally why I strongly disagree.

(August 19, 2023 at 9:17 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:

(August 19, 2023 at 8:53 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: 2024 GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy proposes raising voting age to 25


Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing that the U.S. raise the voting age to 25, with exceptions for those 18 and older who serve in the military, work as emergency responders or take a naturalization test.


Easy peasey, just amend the Constitution.

(But it shows you they see the existential problem they're facing)

The thing that strikes me as unusual is that one of his specified 18-25 exemptions is those who have taken a naturalization test. Does this mean that immigrants would technically have more rights than native-born citizens? 

And thinking about it more, specifically the fact that 18-25-year-old native-borns would have to put their lives on the line in order to vote reminds me very much of a movie I love:







I can remember years ago that an off-hand remark I made about watching Starship Troopers launched into a discussion between Gawj and Boru about why the book was so much better than the film. Shit like this is literally why I strongly disagree.

Two words: Clancy Brown.

(August 19, 2023 at 9:17 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I can remember years ago that an off-hand remark I made about watching Starship Troopers launched into a discussion between Gawj and Boru about why the book was so much better than the film. Shit like this is literally why I strongly disagree.

The idiot that made that movie read the back cover of the book and based his movie on a misunderstanding. People who haven't read the book base their opinion on that monkey's crap. The movie did have naked teenagers, so it was popular.

(August 19, 2023 at 8:53 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: 2024 GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy proposes raising voting age to 25


Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing that the U.S. raise the voting age to 25, with exceptions for those 18 and older who serve in the military, work as emergency responders or take a naturalization test.


Easy peasey, just amend the Constitution.

(But it shows you they see the existential problem they're facing)

Indeed nothing says" we know were becoming irrelevant" like trying to stop young people from voting

Republicans think 13-year-olds are old enough to give birth to their rapists’ baby but 24-year-olds aren’t old enough to vote.

It's like he hasn't read a goddamned thing about recruiting problems in the US military the past few years.

By the time you're 25, you've probably decided not to enlist anyway -- my son notwithstanding.

He's probably lost the military vote with this. They need troops. Like, yesterday.

They won’t be able to deny 18-25 year old the vote, they will certainly be able to make many of the 18-25 who otherwise would not have voted vote against the GOP,

The thing about the civics test is odd. Do 25-year-olds mystically acquire a knowledge of civics that they didn't have at 24?

Boru