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Billionaire George Soros fuels Democrats’ push to lower voting age to 17 | |
2017-03-10 | |
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Stung by recent election defeats, Democrats are leading the charge to lower the voting age to 17, with a little help from liberal billionaire George Soros ...the secretive Hungarian born Ernst Stavro Blofeld-like billionaire who seems to fund every horrible progressiveorganization you can think of... In Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Democratic politicians introduced this week a landmark bill, ACA 10, that would give the Golden State the nation’s youngest statewide voting age by lowering the threshold from 18 to 17 in the name of reversing the slide in voter turnout. How about nine? Doesn't have as many digits, y'know. "Young people are our future," said Democratic Assembly member Evan Low, the measure’s sponsor. "Lowering the voting age will help give them a voice in the democratic process and instill a lifelong habit of voting." The proposal comes as the most ambitious of a host of efforts to chip away at the 18-year-old voting age as Democrats seek to bring into the fold younger voters, who traditionally support more liberal causes and candidates than do their elders. "It is a transparent ploy to pad the Democratic vote," said John J. Pitney Jr., American politics professor at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, referring to the California bill. Mr. Soros is on board: His Open Society Foundations is among the left-wing philanthropies backing FairVote, which has expanded its advocacy for reforms such as a national popular vote in order to exert downward pressure on the voting age.
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Posted by:Fred |
#15 Most everywhere Soros, his foundations or his investment money has gone, trouble has followed. Can't Soros be deported to Great Britain, Russia or some other country where he is wanted for ripping them off? |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-10 15:29 |
#14 Property tax payers and veterans. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-03-10 14:33 |
#13 Tax payers, like property tax payers before there was centralized income tax mechanism...sounds like the original system of the founding fathers, seems like they understood the perils of the entitlement state to the Republic.....smart bunch of old white men after all! |
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-03-10 14:02 |
#12 Actually I would restrict vote to those who are self-supporting. Igf you line at Mom and Pop's or from money handled by Mom and Pop then no vote. Youngsters who don't know what taxes are not qualified to vote. |
Posted by: JFM 2017-03-10 12:37 |
#11 George who? |
Posted by: newc 2017-03-10 12:33 |
#10 #1 The amendment should have said those 18 and over in service rather than the whole lot. Yup. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-10 11:54 |
#9 Paying customers can have anything on menu at the 'Oink Joint' in Zebulon, GA. Why should voting be any different. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-10 09:26 |
#8 Personally, I'm in favor of Robert Heinlein's rule: only veterans get to vote. |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-03-10 09:14 |
#7 I;ve seen this movie before! |
Posted by: Pliny Glons2836 2017-03-10 06:27 |
#6 They still have the fantasy that the youth vote will actually fucking show up. 18 or 21 for everything. Voting, drinking and military service. Pick an age and stay with it. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2017-03-10 02:50 |
#5 And the first thing they'll vote for is abolishing "12" in K-12? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-10 02:31 |
#4 with a little help from liberal billionaire George Soros A bigger meddler than Putin, I think. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-03-10 02:30 |
#3 No voting until you're off your parents' health insurance. |
Posted by: Glenmore 2017-03-10 01:35 |
#2 Now, life's an unfortunate accident; Just something to tax, a contaminant. But franchise that tissue To vote for your issue, And pregnancy's suddenly sacrament. |
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-10 01:18 |
#1 18 was implemented because we were drafting some to go serve in a war. The amendment should have said those 18 and over in service rather than the whole lot. Given the infantilization of so many today, probably better to move it back to 21 with the exception of those serving. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-03-10 01:07 |