Neocon squatbag says no young people should be allowed to vote.

[daaron]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/01/conservative-editor-young-americans-so-frickin-stupid-they-shouldnt-get-to-vote/

Appearing in a video published online on Thursday, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for the neoconservative National Review Online website, explains that he believes letting 18-year-old Americans vote is a big mistake that should be taken back.

Advocating that conservatives should “literally” beat young people into political submission, Goldberg said that young voters are “so frickin’ stupid about so many things,” which is why, in his view, the system must change.

“It is a simple fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity more than youth,” Goldberg said. “We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young. And yet there’s this thing in this culture where, ‘Oh, young people are for it so it must be special.’ No, the reason young people are for it because they don’t know better. That’s why we call them young people.”

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Maybe we should start advocating that anyone who has voted Republican more than 50% of the time should be denied the right to vote.

Just too fucking stupid (cf "The Republican Brain&quot .

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. OK, I think people should be able to vote at 14!

Why not? 14 year olds are probably more sane than some of the people who are elected.

[bluestateguy]

2. Or the elderly people at teabagger rallies screaming about "keep the government out of my Medicare!"

Or the 40% of people who went to the polls in 2004 still believing that Saddam Hussein ordered the 9/11 attacks, or the birthers, etc.

[applegrove]

3. Future demographics are not neocons' friend. They are desperate.

[Populist_Prole]

9. Bingo

They are now in the "whatever it takes" stage.

[WriteWrong]

4. There is solid neurobiological support for your position.

[daaron]

6. I agree. Let's do it.

Rhetorically, at least. Kinda like I'm now a Wifer. I'm not saying Mittens has 5 wives, I'm just saying - let's see the marriage certificates?

[AJTheMan]

10. LOL!

[pscot]

5. Maybe when they quit sending 18-year-olds off to die for the Empire

What a dumb shit.

[littlewolf]

7. I think anyone under the age of 18

should not be allowed to vote ...
I am sure there is evidence that
some people under the
age of age are mature enough
to vote responsibility ... I will
remain rooted to this position.
heh

[vademocrat]

8. by his logic, fox news viewers shouldn't be

allowed to vote either. After all, it's been shown in multiple studies that they're "so frickin' stupid about so many things.". But unlike young people who aren't as stupid as they are inexperienced, the fox news viewers embrace their idiocy - if anything should disqualify someone from voting, it's wallowing in stupidity!

[flobee1]

11. If you are old enough to fight and die for the country

you should also have a say in how it operates