[ April 24, 2024 ]
Their brains aren’t fully formed yet. The more malleable, the better. Apparently the millions of illegals they are importing isn’;t enough.
The Federalist reports: Democrats Court Their Newest Voting Bloc: High Schoolers
Think high-school-junior-to-Democrat-voter pipeline. That’s the model for this left-wing nonprofit’s latest Democrat get-out-the-vote scheme.
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In a fundraising email to its supporters, VoteAmerica — a left-wing nonprofit that focuses on voter registration and turnout — writes that because 50 percent of high school students take either the SAT or ACT, it’s partnering with high schools across the country to register students to vote when they sign up for standardized testing.
Simply put: by signing underage students up to register to vote, FutureVoter and its parent company, VoteAmerica, can send them Democrat Party-specific prompts and groom them into becoming future Democrat voters. While VoteAmerica claims it’s nonpartisan, its fundraising page is serviced by ActBlue Charities, a “pass-through organization created to facilitate donations to left-of-center 501(c)(3) nonprofits.” ActBlue itself is a left-wing PAC that funnels millions of dollars into left-wing causes and Democrat campaigns every year through its fundraising platforms.
Make no mistake about what kind of voter FutureVoter wishes to cultivate. Gen Z helped pull many Democrat candidates to the finish line this past midterm cycle, with about two-thirds of them backing Democrat House candidates (27 percent of Americans aged 18-29 cast votes). While Democrats don’t quite have Gen Z or millennials in the bag (in fact, a growing percentage of young people are supporting the Republican Party), schemes like lowering the voting age or fronting as CollegeBoard itself are all part of the larger Democrat Party plan to cinch the youth vote.
Never mind that a third of high school seniors fail to attain a basic understanding of civics, or that high school (and for that matter, college) graduates are coming out of school woefully uneducated. This is the perfect kind of voting bloc for Democrat GOTV efforts: one that can be effectively propagandized for years to come (according to VoteAmerica, “a young person who casts a ballot in three consecutive elections will become a lifelong consistent voter”). And on this new voting bloc rests the future of the country.
FutureVoter is just one small piece of the puzzle that is Democrats’ complicated network of 501(c)(3) nonprofit “charities” that “stack voter rolls in their favor.” Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother is in charge of one such foundation that funnels millions in tax-exempt cash from Silicon Valley moguls into groups that cherrypick and register potential Democrat voters. The Center for Tech and Civic Life is another one. If Republicans hope to mitigate the effects of these left-wing nonprofit powerhouses (and want a chance at winning elections), they must create their own.
Democrats push to lower voting age to 16
The nationwide campaign is gaining momentum, especially at the local level.
By Aaron Kliegman, Just The News, December 4, 2022:
The Democrat-led movement to lower the legal voting age to 16 — or in some cases even younger — is gaining momentum nationwide, scoring local victories while winning the support of lawmakers and activists on the political left.
The campaign’s latest win came in Boston, where the City Council on Wednesday approved a petition allowing 16- and 17-year-old residents to vote in municipal elections.
The petition will now be sent to the Massachusetts Legislature for approval, which isn’t guaranteed. Several other towns and cities in Massachusetts have voted for similar proposals, which then failed to pass the state House.
Progressive members of the City Council argued that lowering the voting age would help young people build a habit of voting and make them more likely to continue being politically engaged later in life.
“We don’t apply a maturity index to the right to vote for any other age,” City Councilor Kenzie Bok, who sponsored the petition, told the Boston Globe. “Having the opportunity to vote is what gives our 16- and 17-year-olds a chance to engage meaningfully.”
Others argued it’s unfair that teenagers can have adult responsibilities and play active roles in society but don’t have a say in public life.
“Young people are working, paying taxes,” said City Councilor Julia Mejia, who cosponsored the petition. “When it comes to making a decision as to who’s going to represent them, that has been denied to them.”
Mejia also dismissed the notion that 16- and 17-year-old kids may not be mature enough to make important political decisions, saying that “oftentimes it’s young people who are educating their parents and their uncles and aunts and older folks about who’s running for office and why they should vote.”
The push to allow underage children to vote has prompted outcry and legal challenges from election experts opposed to the effort.
“This is a foolish, cynical move by Boston and other jurisdictions,” Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation told Just the News. “Under the law, 16- and 17-year-olds are minors. They can’t sign contracts or leases, buy alcohol, join the military, serve on a jury, or engage in a host of other activities that only legal adults are qualified to engage in because we as a society have judged that they have not yet developed the experience and judgment to make such decisions. They aren’t even treated as adults when they commit crimes, except under exceptional circumstances, for the very same reason.”
If children under 18 can be “trusted in matters affecting our democracy,” asked Spakovsky, then when will policymakers change the law to make people legal adults at 16 so minors can make an array of decisions from which they’re currently barred?
Critics of lowering the voting age often cite the fact that a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed, not reaching full development until about the age of 25. According to one oft-cited study on this subject from 2006, “research in neuroscience suggests that the brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex, is still undergoing major reconstruction and development during the teenage years.” The study noted that the prefrontal cortex is what “enables us to weigh dilemmas, balance trade-offs, and, in short, make reasonable decisions in politics.”
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22 Comments
1 year ago
These should be the only voting laws: (1) Must be an American citizen and speak and read and write in English and vote in English (2) Age of 18 or older (3) Pass a voter test with literacy in English and knowledge of American history and civics. (4) Felons cannot vote ever. (5) Voter id and preferable fingerprint id (6) all elections overseen by both parties and no machines only paper ballots and all votes counted on election day – no early voting and no ballot harvesting or drop boxes. (7) Military ballots must be handled in a special way so they arrive on time. (8) Only those with a physician note can vote by mail. Feel free to add to this list. I have had enough with the treason of cheating. The penalty for voter fraud should be capital punishment.
1 year ago
Reply to
Turtlebrat
Because the 18-29 age group is most supportive of socialism and hateful of America thanks to decades of leftist brainwashing, indoctrination and radicalization (to say nothing of their being shock troops for the most violent movements out there today), I say RAISE the voting age to up to 30. Allowing young people to vote is no different than allowing people to drink and drive.
1 year ago
Reply to
Turtlebrat
Both parties? There is only a uni-party of puppets who take their marching orders from the East India Tea Company. Would you want Mitch McConnell or Mitt Romney representing you when votes are counted? Fraud is used by both parties. I live in Florida, and Rubio and DeSantis won in “fabricated” landslides, to fool Americans to think elections aren’t rigged. Gang of Eight, Little Marco, one of the most compromised Senators in DC, didn’t even face a primary opponent. Laura Loomer was robbed in her primary, as the Florida RNC is in bed with the national organization run by McRomney.
It’s all about defeating President Trump.
D
1 year ago
Reply to
Turtlebrat
The only American Citizen who can vote MUST “have skin in the game”. This means that only PROPERTY OWNERS CAN VOTE!!!
1 year ago
Why not?
Actually, let’s reduce the voting age to 5.
If kids can forced into actions which could reduce their life expectancy by 70 years or so we ought to let them vote at least once before they all croak.
1 year ago
OUTRAGEOUS! If anyone wants to vote and has an opinion in any language they should be able to vote at any age. Why discriminate against the youth of Amerika, our future?
D
1 year ago
Reply to
art
“The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.”—Lyn Nofziger
1 year ago
how do they feel about embryos?
D
1 year ago
The Democrats, the party of Jim Crow is preparing to permanently control the Congress and the White House. Bye bye America. As George Orwell once said, “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.”
1 year ago
Reply to
teslarules
Elect? How precious! Few, if any, of the deviant reprobates in DC are duly elected.
The only election I trust is one where citizens show up in person, with ID and use a paper ballot. Also, counting is done while live-streamed for the world to see the ballots as tabulated. I don’t trust the RNC to count to 11 unless they take their shoes off. And even then, I wouldn’t trust them.
D
1 year ago
Reply to
BobV
If you read Pamela’s page regularly then you read this piece, “Mail-in ballots were part of a Democrat plot to deny Lincoln reelection in 1864”. It was later scrubbed from Pam’s page but can be found on a number of sites still.
Try https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/debate-over-mail-voting-dates-back-civil-war-180976091/
1 year ago
Most 18 year old do not have the common sense to be able a good voting decision. With indoctrination in the schools a 16 year old will vote as they are told and will not question it.
1 year ago
Reply to
Snowedin
‘Wild in the Streets’
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Don’t trust anyone over 13
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So I guess now they will have legislation to allow them to sign binding contracts, lower the draft age, and of course allow them since they are mature in thought enough ta vote to buy a weapon.
1 year ago
Smoke and mirrors. It’s not who votes, it’s who counts the votes. Conservatives have been winning elections by landslides and immoral, deviant globalists have been stealing said landslides with impunity. I know I have had enough and will attack anything related to this illegitimate banana republic.
D
1 year ago
Reply to
BobV
იოსებ სტალინი was right, or if your Georgian is lacking Иосиф Сталин or if your Russian is lacking then Joseph Stalin said that before Joe Biden.
When I was 16 my friends and I became very engaged, but knowing what the FBI agent Cleon Skousen wrote in what he called the Goals of the Communists having 16 year olds vote will work very well for the Democrat Party. Some of those Goals include:
#17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
#19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
#28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.” (Remember these goals were published to expose them in 1958) Coincidence?
#29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
#30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
#40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
#41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
Since Bill Ayers became a college professor American universities have become re-education camps.
Madeline Murray O’Hare was not an atheist, but she was a Marxist.
1 year ago
Think about it, you can’t smoke, you can’t have sex legally, and you can’t drink – but you’re going to be able to vote along with having your genitals mutilated because some crazy loon told you’re not what you were born!
1 year ago
Their brains aren’t fully formed yet. The more malleable, the better.
Sounds like the typical democrat!!
Those who think this Republic is a democracy prove the first line of this comment and should, seriously, ask Mr. Franklin.
Having taught at the college level, twenty-somethings are not “responsible”.
Having attained the age of 73, many, under the age of 30 are not “responsible”.
Many cannot even balance their own checkbook or thinks more than a few minutes ahead.
D
1 year ago
16 year olds do not have the education, life skills, experience or common sense to vote intelligently. They will vote for whomsoever promises them more free stuff. This is another blatant attempt to buy votes with promises…that will never be fulfilled.
1 year ago
Another stupid,moronilc attempt by the illiterate Dems to impose a Nazi regime on this country. Hell, in most states you can’t even a drivers licences ’til you
re 17!.
D
1 year ago
Reply to
jerry
In Germany they were called the Hitler Youth. Note that Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams revealed in their book “The Pink Swastika” that the Nazis were pederasts. They picked up from where a Jewish doctor, Samuel Igra, left off in his book “Germany’s National Vice.”
You may want to read Scott’s paper “The Poisoned Stream.” And be sure to read Dinesh D’Sousa’s article “Dinesh D’Souza: What Hitler Learned from the Democrats”.
“Exclusive – Dinesh D’Souza: A Mutual Admiration Society: FDR and the Left’s Romance with Fascism”
D
1 year ago
If they are old enough and mature enough to vote on the selection of government representatives then they are old enough to enter the military, drink and enter into any contract! Swallow that libtards!
