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Of course. The Democrats know full well that lowering the voting age would automatically give them millions of new voters, since American teenagers are being indoctrinated in Leftist schools. The Republican Party needs to become much more aggressive in confronting the Left. Now that the Left controls Congress and the White House, there is no telling what they will do in order to obtain permanent political power. The Senate filibuster is the only mechanism that we have to prevent some of the most dangerous legislation that we have ever seen from passing. The people of West Virginia need to make sure that Senator Joe Manchin does not break his promise to end the filibuster.
Democrats need election fraud and easily duped morons whose brains are not fully formed in order to “win” elections.
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.@RepPressley on her amendment to lower the voting age to 16: “Some have questioned the maturity of our youth. I don’t. 16- and 17-year-olds today possess wisdom and maturity …” pic.twitter.com/Eg99kIUzG9
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 3, 2021
Majority of House Democrats vote in favor of lowering voting age to 16
By Fox News, March 3, 2021
Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives unsuccessfully pushed an amendment lowering the federal voting age to 16 as part of the H.R. 1 voting rights package on Wednesday.
The vote was 125-302 in the House with the majority of Democrats voting in favor, 125-93, according to C-SPAN.
“A sixteen-year-old in 2021 possesses a wisdom and a maturity that comes from 2021 challenges, 2021 hardships, and 2021 threats,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley, one of the members of Congress behind the amendment, said in a statement on Monday. “Now is the time for us to demonstrate the courage that matches the challenges of the modern-day sixteen- and seventeen-year-old.”
Pressley, Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., reintroduced the amendment on Monday.
Pressley said in February she was “shocked” that lowering the legal voting age to 16 is a “polarizing” subject of debate.
Pressley made the comment during a Facebook Live conversation with Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and author Ibram X. Kendi.
“Dr. Kendi, I was shocked by how polarizing an issue this was, and listen, when I would tell people [the late Rep.] John Lewis is an original co-sponsor of this — you know, our young people deserve to have a stakeholder in our democracy,” Pressley, a member of the so-called “Squad,” said in response to Kendi, who said lowering the voting age is an example of anti-racist policy.
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The idea isn’t brand new. The amendment to lower the voting age was first attached to H.R. 1 in March 2019, when the measure failed after garnering just 126 votes in the House.
“Beginning at the age of 16, young people are contributing to both the labor force and their local economies by paying income taxes, and yet they are deprived of the opportunity to exercise their right to vote,” Pressley said on the House floor in 2019. “In this country, we affirm that when a person walks into the voting booth and pulls that lever, there is no meritocracy or hierarchy. The booth is the equalizer.”
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11 Comments
3 years ago
Never stop saying the truth – people didnt want “Democrats” they wanted Trump.
The election was a fraud. This is a fake, illegitimate regime. The Biden regime has turned American into a third-world tin pot dictatorship over night.
3 years ago
$1.9 TRILLION DOLLARS ….. mmmmmwwwwahahahahahaha 
3 years ago
WHAT DOES IT MATTER THE REPUBLIC IS DEAD THE DEMONRATS MURDERED IT ELECTION NIGHT WHEN THEY DEFRAUDED OUR ELECTIONS AND HAVE MADE THE CONSTITUTION TOILET PAPER SOILED WITH THEIR FILTH AND CORRUPT SCOTUS!
3 years ago
Lectures on maturity from people wearing masks for no reason, surrounded by National Guard so the people can’t evict them.
3 years ago
Why not allow people who claim to be two genders to vote twice, errr, if they don’t do that already.
3 years ago
The voting age should not be lowered to 16 years old. Instead the voting age needs to be raised to 21 years old when a person is legally an adult. The problem is that teenagers at the age of 16 years old are immature, take more risks and do some foolish things. At this age there is a lot that 16 year old teenagers do not understand.
3 years ago
I am very glad that it was “unsuccessful.”
3 years ago
Why not give the vote to dogs, cats, livestock, et al?
3 years ago
Because they know that 16 year olds have 9 more years before they become real adults…LIBERALS ARE USING YOUR CHILDREN, WAKE UP
3 years ago
If you can vote at 16 then you should be allowed to buy beer, go into clubs, AND be drafted.
3 years ago
Progressive Democrats are like maggots, feasting on the carcass of the American republic.
The fascist Democrats can take their corrupt election reform deform legislation and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
