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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by dan-robertson on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:03AM (#26538346)
You could just give them all the right to vote and rely on the fact that young people tend not to vote. It’s about the closest thing to a law of sociology that there is.
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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by dillondoyle on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:53PM (#26560257)
I'm totally into this. Picking the age line is hard. 13 year olds can have very different maturity. But I don't think that matters. Many adults have similar maturity haha ;)

I'm not so sure on vote rate. I hope we might be surprised! Even if not 20% would make a difference in policy. If it was part of curriculum and we tried to give students more confidence in their own power it could have generational change. A lot of social change has happened this way.

I work in politics and it very much disturbs me how often you hear that 'my vote doesn't have any power so why bother' it's self enforcing BS.

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