GOP Not Worried About Students. Will Just Stop Them From Voting. By Usual Suppression Methods.

[TheMastersNemesis]

They would be brazen enough to try to raise voting age to 25.

[VMA131Marine]

1. Not happening!

That would take a Constitutional Amendment.

[beachbum bob]

2. unfortunately they would have to change the constitution and that will be impossible to get

35 states to do it

need to be concern about something more realistic

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. I Know They Can't But They Can't Do It. But You Know They Will Create Havoc Where They Can.

I am just being facetious in a way on the age matter.

[beachbum bob]

4. if kids get the wake up call, they actually are a pretty smart bunch

and like other groups, the more you try to suppress them, the more they will resist.

the fear is raging in republican circles as they may face a revolt of some/many of their big dollar donors who are sick of it and their soul selling to the NRA

[PoorMonger]

5. Actually

I wish the assholes were crazy enough to try floating that idea: 1 it wouldn’t work & 2 it might be the single best motivator to push a normally apathetic voting public to show up to polls.

What’s different about this group ( and why the GOP can’t just suppress their vote) is that they aren’t already disenfranchised in the same way that their usual targets are. When they go after minorities their base cheers it because they hate us, and it often works against those of us on the lower income scale because we might not be able to skip work or pay for new IDs. Those are real barriers. But these kids are look to me to be in different circumstance. they are actually motivated and feel their voices WILL be heard. Which means they won’t fall into the trap of getting discouraged. That’s the biggest factor in voter suppression that actually works. Plus when it’s a broader group that cuts across racial and socioeconomic groups there will be better defenses up to fight back against the idea because of course more people would be impacted.

[global1]

6. I'm Praying That These Florida Students That Have Been

through hell will start a movement all around the U.S. to get high school involved for the Nov midterms to get people so incensed about the stonewalling Repugs that they initiated a massive GOTV campaign.