Which should be the minimum legal age for voting?
In my opinion, minimum legal age for voting should be at least 20. You need some experience in real life to question the brainwashing of the educational system.
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pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
You assume wrongly that age is equivalent to the ability to think critically. The fact given the success of advertising is that most people are incapable of making up their OWN minds - truly thinking independently. These are the people that are targeted by in your example political advertising. For instance Donald Trump - is a marketing wizard - a natural salesman but what he has to sell does no good for anyone and he does not give a hoot about anyone other than himself first and his family second. He has no love for America other than loving to take money out of other peoples pockets and stuff it into his own but to listen to him - the Mexicans, the Chinese, dumb liberal politicians - everyone is responsible for your problems and HE is the one guy who can fix it. His supporters - all hoodwinked and incapable of critical thinking are of all ages - age is Not the determining factor to the ability to think critically - intelligence and not being lazy is the key to this and it is not dependent upon age.