Apparently Ann Coulter wants to raise the voting age.\u00a0 She doesn’t specify to what, but just that she thinks 18 year olds aren’t grown-ups, so shouldn’t vote.\u00a0 Then she goes on with an idiotic strawman of allowing a ten year old to vote as the logical conclusion.<\/p>\n
Here’s my take on it:\u00a0\u00a0If you’re an adult at 18, that means adult.<\/em> You’re allowed to marry without permission, enter a contract without permission (such as a credit card), join the military without permission and hang for murder.\u00a0 Yes, by damn you oughta be able to have a beer and cast a vote if it so strikes your fancy.<\/p>\n If someone cannot be reasonably expected to be an adult at 18, well and good.\u00a0 You can’t get credit.\u00a0 You’re not allowed to marry.\u00a0 You’re certainly not military material nor should you vote.\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 We can change the law and raise the age of majority to some other age.\u00a0 I’m fine with 18 or another age as long as it means ADULT, not this quasi-child status you hold between 18 and 21.\u00a0 I think it totally muddies the waters about what it means to be an adult in the first place.<\/p>\n This is a fish or cut bait thing.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m sure Ms. Coulter is all for that stupid child of whom she is so contemptuous toting a rifle, or doing one of the many highly-skilled, dangerous and underpaid jobs that abound in the military.\u00a0 She just wants ’em to shut up and work for her\u00a0with little say in their lives, and not to get drunk where it’ll offend her precious eyes.<\/p>\n It’s total bull.<\/p>\n Do people make more intelligent decisions in their 40s than they do in their late teens?\u00a0 Good Lord, I’d hope so!\u00a0 I hope I’ll be wiser when I’m 60 than I am now, too.<\/p>\n I know I’ve been Johnny One-Note on the subject of adulthood for awhile, but I’ve got a person living with me who is going to be an adult in two and a half years.\u00a0 His training is my responsibility, and I’m moving Heaven and Earth to make sure he’s ready to take care of himself and make decisions for himself.\u00a0 That’s no damn joke.<\/p>\n Will he screw up?\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0\u00a0He simply won’t have the Life Experience\u00a0of someone 25 years older than he is.\u00a0 But he won’t be unprepared to face those mistakes, which is probably 3\/4 of being a grown-up.<\/p>\n Ann Coulter can stick it up her ass, though.\u00a0 If my son isn’t old enough to vote at 18, he sure as hell isn’t old enough to decide whether or not he wants to go to boot camp, marry or any of the other hundreds of decisions adults make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently Ann Coulter wants to raise the voting age.\u00a0 She doesn’t specify to what, but just that she thinks 18 year olds aren’t grown-ups, so shouldn’t vote.\u00a0 Then she goes on with an idiotic strawman of allowing a ten year old to vote as the logical conclusion. Here’s my take on it:\u00a0\u00a0If you’re an adult … <\/p>\n