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People are susceptible to populism regardless of age and naivety too, are you suggesting we remove the vote from them?
by celticninja 6y ago
People 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.