Age-based disenfranchisement is still disenfranchisement, full stop, and any democracy that starts carving out exceptions based on demographics isn't really a democracy anymore.
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Should voting rights be stripped from citizens over 75 to protect future generations?
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I'm 28 and I find this idea genuinely embarrassing — if we can't win the argument with older voters, the answer is better ideas, not stripping their citizenship rights.
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Once you accept the logic that some groups vote 'wrong' and should be excluded, you've basically handed whoever's in power a blueprint for eliminating any inconvenient electorate they want.
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There's zero evidence that older voters systematically harm future generations — plenty of seniors vote on climate, education, and healthcare with their grandkids explicitly in mind, so this whole premise is just bad data dressed up as concern.
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My grandmother marched for voting rights in the 60s and you want to take hers away because she's 'too old'? Absolutely not — she's earned that ballot more than most of us ever will.
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We already accept that kids can't vote because they lack the life experience to weigh consequences — honestly the same logic applies at the other end, when cognitive decline and generational distance make truly informed futurism nearly impossible.
Future generations literally cannot vote, so someone has to advocate for them — and people in the final chapter of their lives, through no fault of their own, are structurally incentivized not to.
Actuarially speaking, voters over 75 have on average less than a decade of skin in the game, while younger voters will live with policy outcomes for 40-50 years — the math on equal weighting just doesn't make democratic sense.
I watched my grandfather vote against every school funding measure for 15 years because 'taxes are too high' — he had no kids, no stake in the outcome, and yet his vote cancelled mine out every single time.
Look, if you're 80 years old you're not gonna live with the consequences of a 30-year climate policy or a new war — why should your vote carry equal weight to someone who actually has to survive the fallout?