Flying Squid to politics @lemmy.world • 2 years agoParents annoyed as pronouns law requires Indiana schools to report all nickname requestswww.indystar.comexternal-linkmessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1690arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareXariphonlinkfedilink29•2 years agoThere’s no stupid thing a kid could do in the voting booth that old people don’t already do regularly.
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkfedilink5•2 years agoWhen I was 7, in 1984, the school held a mock election. I voted for John Glenn because he was an astronaut and astronauts are cool. Jesse Jackson won because I don’t know why, but maybe lowering the voting age to 6 might not work out.
Lower the voting age to 6
There’s no stupid thing a kid could do in the voting booth that old people don’t already do regularly.
When I was 7, in 1984, the school held a mock election. I voted for John Glenn because he was an astronaut and astronauts are cool. Jesse Jackson won because I don’t know why, but maybe lowering the voting age to 6 might not work out.