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I was also that kinda smart well-informed kid - I thought. :) In retrospect, when I first voted at the age of 18 I was horribly underinformed/undereducated/nai
by tpmx 6y ago
I was also that kinda smart well-informed kid - I thought. :)
In retrospect, when I first voted at the age of 18 I was horribly underinformed/undereducated/naive. And at, say, 16 I would have been comparatively speaking so much more naive and susceptible to populism, be it from the left or the right.
There are layers/complexities to politics, and it takes time to understand them.
You do have a point that most adults are also horribly underinformed, but...
- celticninja 6y agoPeople are susceptible to populism regardless of age and naivety too, are you suggesting we remove the vote from them?
- tpmx 6y agoIs it really regardless of age? As an extreme example: I'm pretty sure an average 5 year old is more susceptible to populism than an average 35 year old.
- michaelt 6y agoI just did a google image search for images of the US Capitol Riot from January this year, and it doesn't look like a particularly young crowd. Looks more middle-aged to me.
- justsid 6y agoThe 5 year old crowd kinda lacks the means of transportation to pull these kinda of things of. That doesn’t mean they are wiser than the capitol rioters, just that they have a harder time to do things by themselves. Middle-aged people have both the means to go to events and also the capital to do so.
- celticninja 6y agoSo yeah 5 year olds might make poor decisions, but so do adults and we don't let that prevent them from voting.