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submitted 1 year ago by Mica@feddit.de to c/germany@feddit.de

What do you think? Personally I'm all for it. I think it's important to have as many young people involved in politics to counteract the old majority.

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[-] Grey08@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

At this point in time we also could get ChatGPT manage this land… I don’t think it would make a difference to lower the age. The „babyboomer“ are way more active in the voting than the younger generation :s So yes pleas lower the age to vote, also we need a maximum age for the Parlament!

[-] Leon@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, let a language model decide politics, and ignore a few percent of potential voting power. I'd laugh if I didn't suspect you were serious.

[-] Grey08@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The first part isn't serious you're right. The rest of it is. I don't thing it would make a big different to lower the voting age in the outcome. And i don't think it is a good idea, i remember my first voting i had no idea what to vote so i have vote "the lesser worst option" that i know to that time. It has to change more than the voting age in this system to work properly again...

[-] Leon@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

My situation was the same as yours, but I think it would have been like that no matter what age. I'm not sure it's a good idea either, but fact is there are kids who're politically active and can't vote, and that seems a little silly. Democracy's whole thing is that it doesn't exclude.

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