• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Maybe I’m an outlier or I was a shitty kid, but I was straight up defending Cheney in high school, because my dad was a bush fan. My first year of college, I entered rapid decompression and started understanding how my morals actually aligned with politics. I don’t think it’s because I was a dumb kid, but kids are really influenced by their parents.

    That said, it doesn’t matter if there are more republican voters, it is morally right imo to allow children 15/16+ to vote.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That’s the same argument that was made against women’s suffrage. Adults are influenced by their parents, their peers, their employers, their professors, and many many adults live in a social echochamber that gives them a skewed sense of the world. That’s still not an argument to deny the right to vote.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Exactly, we tend to reflect our parents from a young age. Mostly because their world view is basically what we know.

      It isn’t until we get out from under that, that we fcan begin to form our own perceptions.

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      12 year old me didn’t know anything and knew it. 16 year old me still didn’t know shit but believed he knew everything. Allowing any age to vote is crazy.