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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeocon squatbag says no young people should be allowed to vote.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/01/conservative-editor-young-americans-so-frickin-stupid-they-shouldnt-get-to-vote/Appearing in a video published online on Thursday, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for the neoconservative National Review Online website, explains that he believes letting 18-year-old Americans vote is a big mistake that should be taken back.
Advocating that conservatives should literally beat young people into political submission, Goldberg said that young voters are so frickin stupid about so many things, which is why, in his view, the system must change.
It is a simple fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity more than youth, Goldberg said. Were all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young. And yet theres this thing in this culture where, Oh, young people are for it so it must be special. No, the reason young people are for it because they dont know better. Thats why we call them young people.
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Maybe we should start advocating that anyone who has voted Republican more than 50% of the time should be denied the right to vote.
Just too fucking stupid (cf "The Republican Brain" .
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Why not? 14 year olds are probably more sane than some of the people who are elected.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Or the 40% of people who went to the polls in 2004 still believing that Saddam Hussein ordered the 9/11 attacks, or the birthers, etc.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)They are now in the "whatever it takes" stage.
WriteWrong
(85 posts)daaron
(763 posts)Rhetorically, at least. Kinda like I'm now a Wifer. I'm not saying Mittens has 5 wives, I'm just saying - let's see the marriage certificates?
pscot
(21,024 posts)What a dumb shit.
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)should not be allowed to vote ...
I am sure there is evidence that
some people under the
age of age are mature enough
to vote responsibility ... I will
remain rooted to this position.
heh
vademocrat
(1,089 posts)allowed to vote either. After all, it's been shown in multiple studies that they're "so frickin' stupid about so many things.". But unlike young people who aren't as stupid as they are inexperienced, the fox news viewers embrace their idiocy - if anything should disqualify someone from voting, it's wallowing in stupidity!
flobee1
(870 posts)you should also have a say in how it operates