In 1971, Michigan lowered the drinking age to 18 years
old. I was a senior in high school and like many of my friends we thought it
was correct because we could drive, vote and get drafted and go to Vietnam. We
figured if we could die for our country we could drink.
Late 1960s and 1970s:
Drinking age lowered. During the late 1960s and 1970s, nearly all states lowered the drinking age to 18. This
led to a huge increase in alcohol-related car accidents and drunk driving was
deemed a public health crisis. In the mid-1970s, 60 percent of all traffic
fatalities were alcohol related, according to the National Institute of Health(NIH).
Over two-thirds of car accidents involving persons aged 16 to 20 were
alcohol-related.
It was a terrible decision to allow drinking at 18. We
no longer had to drive to Ohio for 3.2 beer. We no longer had to wait around
beer stores waiting for someone buy for us while we hoped they did not run off with
our money.
During lunch hour we were allowed to leave campus and
we went to the bar for lunch or bought a GIQ beer and drove around eating our
sandwiches. Every Friday night after games we were in a local bar, then drove
home or to a friend’s house.
Perhaps we were old enough to fight in Vietnam but we
were not mature enough to drink. The Military could handle 18-year-old drinkers
but society could not. The main reason they lowered the age was to get a vote,
pure and simple!
In 1984, President Reagan changed the law back to 21.
And now… it is happening again -
"I, myself, personally -- I'm not speaking for my
caucus -- I, myself, have always been for lowering the voting age to 16,"
Pelosi said. "I think it's really important to capture kids when they're
in high school, when they're interested in all of this, when they're learning
about the government, to be able to vote." https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/03/15/nancy-pelosi-supports-lowering-voting-age-16-fox-friends-guests-debate
I’m sorry but a vote is a privilege that comes with
being an adult. I do not consider high school children adults. I don’t care if
they work and pay taxes at 16.
Pelosi (and others) also want to give Illegal Aliens
the right to vote. In most countries, suffrage, the right to vote, is
generally limited to citizens of the
country. Some countries, however, extend voting rights to resident
non-citizens. Such voting rights extended to non-citizens are often restricted
or limited in some ways, with the details of the restrictions or limitations
varying from one country to another. I can’t vote in other countries so why
should I expect others to vote in mine. Again, it’s about the vote.
One area of the brain that experiences the most rapid
changes during teenage years is the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain
involved in judgment and decision making. Thus, teens are biologically more
likely to have lapses in judgment. In other words, they have not lived long
enough to experience life without being swayed by others or have the capacity
to understand they are being used.
Electoral College –
Sorry - I do not want New York, California, Texas or
Florida picking who will be the President of the UNITED STATES. Yes, United
States, not the states with the greatest number of people. You pick your own governor’s
and that is fine by the popular vote.
If you want the popular vote to rule who will be
president then I want the territorial boundaries of each state redrawn so that
population and where people live will be divided by 50 so that everyone as an
equal chance. Sounds ridiculous, Yes, so does allowing the bigger states to rule.
Supreme Court – No comment see above
DO they not see what is going on? If you can't win by the rules, change them until you do win.
