What WOULD make some sense is if there could be some kind of a youth voter "Learner's Permit", associated with the public/private schools somehow, where as part of their curriculum they would debate, have their vote, report their results to news agencies. That would make sense, a lot of sense for a lot of reasons... might even become a USEFUL part of pre-college training for life as it is.
But then, I am also an advocate for teaching firearms safety in school.,,, to where by the time you are a senior you need to pass the course on the range with live fire.... sorta like a core requirement to get your diploma.
I sub-taught public schools for a few years recently... asked the class one day how they would have voted in a certain election. Their answer was, with VERY rare exceptions, they would NOT have voted at all. When asked, "Why?"... their uniform answer was that they believe "the fix is in" before anybody GETS to the polls. This is coming from the well-informed well-fed mouths of teenagers.
Somebody either put that thought into their heads, or they came to that conclusion amongst themselves... in either case it does not bode well for this Republic.
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