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Originally Posted by Wormius
It’s grim, but they don’t have to live for 60+ more years with bad decisions made today.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Another example of the vast gulf between online politics and real-world politics. Any politicians or party calling for an age limit on voting would be committing electoral suicide. It would also be unconstitutional. Which is why it hasn’t been introduced by any government anywhere.
Meanwhile, restricting voting to citizens is a near-universal norm in democracies around the globe.
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We should have weighted voting. For the first ten years of eligibility (18-28) your vote is worth 100%. Every decade after that your voting power becomes 10% lower. By retirement age your vote is only 60%.