Graduations and the 26th Amendment

Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Why an article like this today? I started thinking. Many of our sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, are going to be graduating from high school and college in the coming days. I only wish them the best. But I started thinking about the state of the economy, the country’s financial woes, and began to wonder, “How can they fix this?”

Finally, the answer hit me — Repeal the 26th Amendment. It’s a radical idea. But it might just have merit. The argument for the amendment (40 years ago) was that since 18-year olds could drink and be drafted into military service, they should be allowed to vote. Today, 18-year olds can’t drink and the country doesn’t have a draft so that argument doesn’t work anymore (hence, the repeal of their right to vote). If you are an 18-year old serving in the military, none of this applies to you. You can vote.

People under the age of 25 aren’t married (usually), don’t own a house, effectively have no tax burden, and according to ObamaCare are allowed to stay on their parents’ health insurance policies because they are children. We don’t let children vote because they might screw things up. Can you imagine who your 10-year old would vote for?

Research has shown that a person’s brain isn’t fully developed until the age of 25. Insurance companies have known this for years as they set prices on auto insurance premiums. A person’s frontal lobes, which play a significant role in decision-making, aren’t fully developed until then. Why are we going to let people that can’t make sound decisions vote for the president?

Someone once said, “If you’re under 30 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you’re over 30 and not conservative, you have no brain.” Who would have ever thought that someone telling our 18 year olds two years ago that they should, “Vote for Obama! It’ll be cool!” would have cost them their futures?

We let them vote and now we have seen the error of our ways.