American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.
Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.
I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.
I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.
Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.