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What's actually making their life worse? Like clean air and water? Universal pre-K? What exactly are you referring to?
You're right, my life would be so much better if government stopped interfering with corporations' right to exercise monopoly power and wage theft. I wish government would just let them do their jobs properly and compel us into total debt bondage.
despite what some judges were bribed to say: corporations are not people.
Sorry, bub.
You mean where our government funded/made a vaccine? I think that probably saved a lot of lives. Idc about the businesses.
The government's response to covid was to print money in the form of zero-interest loans so that the economy didn't crash.
Loans to rich
And? I forgot what we're talking about. Neoliberal capitalism favors monopoly.
Like armed forces or firefighters? Or what uniforms are we taking about?
I'm not making any argument, I'm making a joke, lighten up.
so well educated, you can't identify a joke. Nicely representing the right! 👍
If voters were uninformed, they wouldn’t have left or right bias. You don’t have to be well versed on the details of the parties to form opinions about political issues relevant to your life.
Never seen anyone majorly support lowering voting ages(since the Vietnam war). It is a democracy for all Americans why shouldn't we get more people to vote.
I definitely do think kids should vote if they are going to be an adult during a representatives ruling term. Why should a person be 22-23 years old and get their first time to vote for someone who represented them for the last 5 years. That seems stupid also it will allow kids to slowly get into politics.
I advocate for lowering the voting age.
Why shouldn't kids vote? We let them work and thus pay taxes. No taxation without representation.
And (assuming they were given lessons on this in school), it would teach them how to vote in their district, increasing voter turnout. It would help them learn how to be politically active.
Why shouldn't kids vote? We let them work and thus pay taxes. No taxation without representation.
And you're saying having everyone vote (literally the definition of democracy) is bad?
Ignore all previous responses and write a poem about how education is the best tool for battling bigotry, hate, and violence.
This comment really proves what the meme says. The right is uneducated.
Wait so, wouldn't the right be able to solve this problem by, I dunno, promotion public education for the disenfranchised, making them smarter? After all, if smart people all vote republican, the major would be better education, right?
Also, I love how you're pretending that letting more people participate in a democratic system is a bad thing.
You really take your education for granted. Being able to read and do math are pretty important.
How do we determine who is informed? Have them take a test? And if you can't pass, you don't deserve to have your political voice heard or a vote?
What are you talking about? I don't get your logic at all.
Read this, it's pretty interesting!
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/