Thursday, September 26, 2013
Infantilizing The Millennials
I thought it was insulting towards the Millennials (roughly the 20-somethings) when the Obama Campaign came out with their Julia web advertisement - where Obama promised young women that her neighbors would pa...y for her college, health care, birth control, abortions, and probably everything else necessary to create a responsibility-free life... promising an adolescence that would last throughout "Julia's" life.
Apparently that was appealing to the Millennials, since they voted for the plan in droves (though not as much as in 2008). Apparently promising that their neighbors would fund not only their necessities, but their sex life as well, was a good selling point. The Obama Campaign, in the form of a famous young actress, even compared voting for Obama to a young woman losing her virginity to an oh-so-handsome stud.
Talk about manipulation. But it worked. And that is, to me, the most worrying thing about what Obama has created in this country: an extended adolescence for millions of young people. They vote for him, and he'll use brute force to make their neighbors fund the party... forever. Rumor has it that next up is the Affordable Beer Act. That'll probably work, too.
Well, fine. The logic behind having a minimum age for suffrage (voting rights) is that, below a certain age - adulthood - people don't have the experience or judgment, and don't know enough about how life really works to be entrusted with making adult decisions about the future direction of the country. So, let's extend that logic given the new reality of 25-year-old teenagers.
If the unified goal of Leftist politicians and a majority of Millennials is to extend the good old high school experience to at least until 26 - when they leave their parents' health plans and move out of their parents's basements - then I think it only reasonable that we move the voting age up to 26. The Millennials are free to check out from adult society. But that means that they've actively decided to avoid experiencing those things that would make them qualified voting adults.
Otherwise, we might as well give the vote to 12-year-olds. They're even *more* easily manipulated that the Julias out there. But not much.
I thought it was insulting towards the Millennials (roughly the 20-somethings) when the Obama Campaign came out with their Julia web advertisement - where Obama promised young women that her neighbors would pa...y for her college, health care, birth control, abortions, and probably everything else necessary to create a responsibility-free life... promising an adolescence that would last throughout "Julia's" life.
Apparently that was appealing to the Millennials, since they voted for the plan in droves (though not as much as in 2008). Apparently promising that their neighbors would fund not only their necessities, but their sex life as well, was a good selling point. The Obama Campaign, in the form of a famous young actress, even compared voting for Obama to a young woman losing her virginity to an oh-so-handsome stud.
Talk about manipulation. But it worked. And that is, to me, the most worrying thing about what Obama has created in this country: an extended adolescence for millions of young people. They vote for him, and he'll use brute force to make their neighbors fund the party... forever. Rumor has it that next up is the Affordable Beer Act. That'll probably work, too.
Well, fine. The logic behind having a minimum age for suffrage (voting rights) is that, below a certain age - adulthood - people don't have the experience or judgment, and don't know enough about how life really works to be entrusted with making adult decisions about the future direction of the country. So, let's extend that logic given the new reality of 25-year-old teenagers.
If the unified goal of Leftist politicians and a majority of Millennials is to extend the good old high school experience to at least until 26 - when they leave their parents' health plans and move out of their parents's basements - then I think it only reasonable that we move the voting age up to 26. The Millennials are free to check out from adult society. But that means that they've actively decided to avoid experiencing those things that would make them qualified voting adults.
Otherwise, we might as well give the vote to 12-year-olds. They're even *more* easily manipulated that the Julias out there. But not much.
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