Originally Posted by
donttread
Would you like what's going on in College Campuses or some other PC fad to become law tomorrow? Before the people comes the person and his or her inalienable rights. Period! Beyond that I'd be OK with direct votes for certain laws. However, you have an uneducated lazy voter base that gives 95% of their votes to those who have already failed them . That would need to be fixed and with the feds in charge of education that ain't gonna happen. You also have representatives that can't even read laws ( often written by the industry they apply to) before voting on them and that's their job.
With today's technology there are items that could be brought before the public as municipalities do which I would support after an automatic Constitutionality review.
I do have a thought on this
And I understand what you are saying completely. Your worry is not without reason.
I believe that just giving the people a right to vote "for reals" would change them. For instance back in the cowboy days a boy of 12 was more like a man, what I mean by that is more mature. boys of today are not more like a man until about age 30 give or take.
The reason is, is that they used to have more responsibilities, so they were more serious and had a sense of duty and responsibility. If we gave our children and I mean 18 year olds here the sense that they were "really" part of something great then they might not act like they do now. They may develop into more mature beings.
They might not be the easily brain washed hooligans that they are now. Some college kids are more interested in beer bonging than voting. I am sure that those extremely immature children will not be participating in voting anyways they will be too hung over to make it to the voting booths. So in a way they are not really a threat to true democracy.
But to those who do find a sense of duty, a sense of true responsibility then they may be more mature in mind much earlier than normal. In allowing them their rights we might help to shape them in to better human beings and that will begin to change our nation. Because those younglings are eventually going to be the ones who are the adults and have control of all of this. Why not take the time to teach them what it means to be a real man (adult). We don't want them to grow up with a complex feeling they have no rights, then the result is occupy wallstreeters. But we can change that by making them men.
By the way when I say men I mean all man kind and being with adult mind after 18 or so. So women are not left out here. Since I myself am a woman. I am just giving an example.
We don't know because we haven't given them the chance.