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“And Those Who Munch on Tide Pods Shall Lead…”
Just like in the movie Heathers, the kids from Parkland High School figured out pretty quickly that parroting the media’s Gun Control Narrative will get them on TV. Just to demonstrate how silly it’s gotten, deranged law professor Lawrence Tribe wants to lower the voting age to 16 so Generation Tide Pod can share its wisdom with us.
Teens between 14 and 18 have far better BS detectors, on average, than “adults” 18 and older. Wouldn’t it be great if the voting age were lowered to 16? Just a pipe dream, I know, but . . . #Children’sCrusade?
No, professor, teenagers do not possess finely tuned BS detectors. Their lack of life experience and desire for validation make them much easier to manipulate than adults. Have you seen the 21st Century hipster mullet high school kids are wearing? Nobody with common sense and a rational worldview gets a haircut like that.
And this is an interesting aside that the media won’t cover because it goes against The Narrative. The Parkland Head Case (whose name I won’t mention) was not referred by school officials to law enforcement — even for offenses like assault and possession of bullets on school property — because of the school’s race-progressive policy of not reporting black and Hispanic offenders. (This sort “educational equity” policy was encouraged under the Obama administration to “combat racial disparities in discipline.”)
By the way, at least one Florida teacher says that the problem isn’t gun, but general societal dysfunction and moral breakdown. No, she will not be offered a speaking slot at the next CNN “town hall.” Also, a grown-up survivor of the Columbine mass-murder has introduced a bill in Colorado to permit concealed carry in schools. This goes against the media’s preferred narrative, and so she will not be getting a speaking gig on CNN.
ABC News took the time to further the Gun Control Narrative by highlighting a video from a guy who virtue-signalishly destroyed the AR-15 he has owned for 30 years so that “it can never be used to kill anyone.” Hey, wait a minute. You mean this guy kept an AR-15 for 30 years and it never once went on a murder rampage? It must be broken or something.
Somebody else who is benefiting from the Democrat Media Complex’s prerogative to reward its ideological fellows is Olympic skater Adam Rippon, who was offered a gig with NBC. Not because of his tenth-place-worthy skating or brilliant insights into sport, but because he attacked a Republican Vice President. The Left takes care of its own.
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I recall a comedian saying …
”When I was 18 I thought my parents were the dumbest creatures on two feet. When I was 24, I couldn’t believe how much they had learned!”
In an intellectual vacuum I am mildly pro-voting but in reality I am mostly anti-voting because we fetishize voting. I would raise the minimum age for voting (excepting men and women who serve in the military) and have some kind of very basic test.
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
–Winston Churchill
He stole that quote from Mark Twain who said it better.
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
Indeed…I learned something new today. Thanks!
That goes well with the cartoonist who said (paraphrasing) maturity is realizing what an idiot you were when you were young.
By Professor Tribe’s own logic, as an aged man (born 1941) far removed from the wisdom of his youth, no one should be listening to anything he has to say at all. And yet, he keeps on yammering nonsense.
It’s mostly right, just reverse it to 61.
I’ve always thought we should raise the voting age at least back to 21. Better yet, make it such that you can only vote in an election if you are old enough to run for that office. Think of what it would be like if only people 35 and older could vote for President . . .
I think anyone who wants to vote should be required to pass the same test an immigrant must pass to become a citizen. Then, you get a biometric, one-use-per-election voter card.
I’m much more concerned about voters of any age who make no effort to inform themselves about either the issues or the candidates. We’ve actually had people ask us who we thought they should vote for and what ballot issues they should favor or oppose. Not because they just valued our opinion but because they didn’t want to put effort into being an informed voter. I would like to see a national movement to discourage such idiots from voting ;>) …………….. Well, I can dream, can’t I?
FIFY
I like the idea!
VTK,
Lawrence Tribe the Pied Piper of Harvard.
Regards,
Jim
Sonny Bunch, in his trolling style, posted this on Twitter yesterday.
That hashtag, #childrenscrusade, is the cherry on top. The only thing the historical children’s crusade achieved was trading a lot of kids for a lot of gold in the slave markets in North Africa.
Imposing a maximum age like 67 would also address many issues.
Senile citizens quickly become as easy to manipulate as children, if not more.
It would reduce the dead voting in Chicago and the comatose voting in nursing homes throughout the country.
Because the dead and comatose don’t answer polls, polling numbers for people over 67 are heavily Republican. Thus, we can portray this as a sacrifice.
VTK,
I think Tribe should go all the way and lower the voting age to 5 years old. At the voting booth, the poll watcher can have a Republican doll and a Democratic doll. He will present the dolls to the young voter and see which doll the child prefers.
Professor Tribe is nuts and should go away.
Regards,
Jim
Maybe we should have a maximum voting age, too. At what age does the professor think we become stupid and gullible? 25? 30?
Anybody remember the movie “Wild in the Streets” from 1968?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063808/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I think by the end of that movie they were giving the vote to 14-year-olds and putting anyone over 30 into camps. I haven’t seen it in a long time but I thought it was pretty cool when I was a kid. We do not want to give more power to the young!
The theme song was catchy:
I’m quoting this line from memory so it may not be quite right, but the young Presidential candidate said something like, “We going to take everyone over 30, and we’re going to lock them up Baby, and we’re going to freak them out on LSD Baby, so they can’t hurt you, they can’t hurt me, and they can’t even hurt themselves!!“
The media types will tolerate people with guns in banks guarding the money, but not in schools guarding the children. Why should that be?
It’s not the age. Registration as a Democrat is all the proof you need . . .
If only taxpayers could vote, it would make more sense. And military. Both groups have skin in the game.
Never before in history has there been uttered in all seriousness a less accurate statement. It is a daily challenge to train BS detecting skills into my naively gullible young children.
The kids being bullied, evidently, cannot see past their own peers BS and take it seriously, and payback is hell. What happened to the idea that bullying produced school violence? That seemed like it was yesterday that anti bullying campaigns were the rage.
Kids know how to play adults and get rewarded somehow for it. Kids now how to exploit adult weaknesses and manipulate if given a chance. It is the adults that need to call out kids on BS.
The shooter’s facial features look to me like he may be somewhat mentally handicapped, like maybe FAS. He just does to me. He strikes me that way.
I don’t want to do the paperwork every election though. Can’t I do it once and renew it online?
Why didn’t the old World WWII and Korean veterans just shoot him and restore the constitution?
Hey! Just a minute there sonny!
Most military are taxpayers.
I’ll bet he doesn’t have any children.
We were a much saner society when the minimum drinking age was 18 and the minimum voting age was 21.