US voting age should be lowered
A most just and direct solution to dwindling voter turnout at the polls would be to lower the voting age so as to include high school students in our political process.
Already pressed with the responsibility of choosing career paths for themselves, students deserve the added responsibility of casting ballots for those who would govern those paths, and as active participants, students would be more readily and fully schooled in the political process, while involving them in the process during the height of their formative years would better the odds they’d stay involved beyond graduation, since habits instilled in youth tend to stick, as any tobacco manufacturer can verify.
An increased turnout at the polls would be an opportunity to cure our government of its infernal inertia, but governmental inertia is as permanent an obstruction to lowering the voting age as it is to just about any other constructive change, and the Gordian Knot tightens.
Steve “Grover” Homer
Uniontown