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You can apply that logic to most decisions this country makes.
Why the hell are we letting 70 year olds dictate energy policy? They're not gonna see the full brunt of climate change.
Why are they involved in foreign policy? They're not going off to war.
Economics? Most of the people they talk to are retired or rich. tf do they know about making rent in 2024?
Honestly, this may sound controversial... but if we deny teens the vote, I'm not certain why the hell we allow retirees to vote.
Can't vote for the first 18 years of your life? Can't vote for the last 18 either (based on average life expectancy), just watch how things improve dramatically if such a measure is put in place.
Same logic with holding elected positions, if people younger than X can't be elected then people older than (life expectancy - X) can't either. And yes, I realize that it leaves very few years for men to become president in the US' case and that's not a bad thing at all.
Anything that motivates increasing the national average life expectancy is a good thing
You don't want Bernie to vote?
I don't want anyone that won't live with the consequences of their political decisions to be in a position where they get to decide for those who will.
It would mean losing a few progressive voices, but also losing a ton of far right and center right voices and opening the door to people who actually have a reason to care for what's going to happen in the next 50 years because it concerns then directly.
On the flip side, young folks vote influences things like social security and medicare. Given that everyone of all ages is subject to various government policies, often uniquely, you cannot have a system where you can identify a subpopulation that 'shouldn't count' by that logic.
And young folks influence it in their favor for the long term which also benefits people that are currently old instead of old folks pulling the ladder after them.
He can vote a little as a treat.
Some care. Some don't want their grandchildren to suffer. But right wingers never care regardless of their age. They're selfish assholes.
The voter demographics from the last presidential election has 52% of voters being age 50+, with 52% of those voters voting for Trump.
It's certainly not all older voters, but it is most of them.