12-16-2008, 02:03 PM
freeradical wrote:
The young are basically to dumb to vote - who here was really informed at age 18.
And yet they are informed enough to decide who to shoot and not to shoot in Iraq and Afghanistan. And old enough to be put in harms way to help protect older people's "right" to make stupid decisions like buy hundreds of thousands of gas guzzling SUV's.
Mac-A-Matic wrote:
Probably because the "young people" don't have anything to lose yet.
Except their idealism.
Most of the American soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan are 18 to 29 year olds. When guys in Vietnam my age were being killed I knew what my generation was losing; I'm sure younger people do now as well. And they see the future the older generation has been creating for them through electing George Bush twice and saw a continuation of it if McCain was elected and they rejected that future and chose a future they hope Obama can bring. I hope so, too, and I'm a fairly old guy - one who never lost his idealistic goals, just maybe gained a little smidgeon of pragmatism about how to achieve those goals.