#short-sighted elitist morons always going for the easiest solution when it comes to anything outside their primary platform

[thefage]

Absolutely insane that people want to lower the voting age to 16, 16-year-olds are idiots. I was an idiot at 16 and I recognized I was an idiot at 16, and if given the right to vote I absolutely would have just because I feel a duty to. By all means, let them interact with and hold positions in parties, and even encourage them to do so, that will help build political awareness before they're properly ready to vote, but it is entirely irresponsible to trust the fate of entire country to people who have not experienced the full scope of the repercussions for their decisions yet. If we lower voting age to 16, it would then become unreasonable to then not lower the age of maturity when it comes to things like tattoos and self-sustainability, and 16-year-olds should not be burdened with that, they should be allowed to be kids for as long as possible and continue to make mistakes, learn and finish school without all these responsibilities