{"id":50991,"date":"2023-11-02T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50991"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:17:32","slug":"qotd-lowering-the-voting-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/11\/02\/qotd-lowering-the-voting-age\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Lowering the voting age"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>It occurs to me that if you start demanding that small children be allowed to vote in general elections \u2013 largely because you assume that their choices, their politics, will tend to mirror your own \u2013 then perhaps it&#8217;s time to ponder why your own politics correspond with the imagined preferences of children, who are, by definition, unworldly and irresponsible. Such that you grudgingly concede that, &#8220;Enfranchising everyone [i.e., including small children] will make the electorate less informed on average&#8221;. The rest of us, meanwhile, may wish to ponder whether a leftist&#8217;s desire to exploit the ignorance of small children in order to further her own socialist vanities is not only farcical, but degenerate. <\/p>\n<p>David Thompson, <a href=\"https:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2019\/09\/pudding-first.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pudding First&#8221;, <em>David Thompson<\/em><\/a>, 2019-09-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that if you start demanding that small children be allowed to vote in general elections \u2013 largely because you assume that their choices, their politics, will tend to mirror your own \u2013 then perhaps it&#8217;s time to ponder why your own politics correspond with the imagined preferences of children, who are, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41],"tags":[374,188,1020],"class_list":["post-50991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-children","tag-electionwatch","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dgr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85503,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991\/revisions\/85503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}