Philip BumpVivek Ramaswamy's proposal to limit voting for those under 25 is an obvious attempt to skew elections in his party's favor. But it's also a reflection of the overlap between age and party that's downstream from the baby boom. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/11/long-shot-gop-candidate-wants-limit-voting-by-younger-americans/
Baby boomers, when they are in their teens: Teens should be allowed to vote!
[26th Amendment is ratified]
Baby boomers, when they are retiring: Teens are too young to vote!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/11/long-shot-gop-candidate-wants-limit-voting-by-younger-americans/
[26th Amendment is ratified]
Baby boomers, when they are retiring: Teens are too young to vote!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/11/long-shot-gop-candidate-wants-limit-voting-by-younger-americans/
✡️ MG ✡️ #VoteBlue@pbump I've read the article. As a 64 yr old lifelong Democrat & Boomer, I'm still offended by this generalization. It is generalized. It is ageist and, as usual, it lumps all Boomers into a single demographic, and we're not. Not even close.
@knitvspurl what if I told you I know a little bit about baby boomers
@pbump - I'd say, Great! Since you know everything about us, please name for me which influential Democrats favor raising the voting age to 25.
@pbump Or removing all polling places from college/university campuses. Or limiting early voting to old or sick people. Or any of a dozen other measures being employed by the GOP (per your OWN article) to limit voting by young people. And yet, you felt it important to generalize that it's just "Baby Boomers". It's not Boomers. It's the GOP, because they can't earn the votes of young people & still keep their base.