The issue isn't women voting, the issue is having barely any criteria for voting for voting in the first place. There is no way that some 18 year old hood rat who through dumb luck hasn't been arrested should logically have the same say as a 40 year old veteran who has started several successful businesses. Only an idiot would actually think such a system is a good one, it is the same exact system high school kids use to pick prom kings and queens.
Making it so you have to be active duty military or a veteran with an honorable discharge and/or a landowner would solve so many of these problems (though it would still be an inferior government). Be honest, would anyone actually care if women could vote but only if they were veterans who owned land?
I would also propose that anyone running for a public office should also meet the criteria of being a voter under such a proposal. No more politicians who have never served.
The whole military service requirement would only work if our military functioned Constitutionally. As far as I'm concerned, anyone willing to throw their life away to fight for Zion is no wiser or more qualified to discern than the 18 year old gangbaner.
Have you ever considered that in a relatively short time elected officials who supported war in the middle east (or anywhere not directly posing a threat to the US) would be phased out if only veterans voted?
The whole reason we have these wars in the middle east is because idiots who never had to actually serve in the military had a say in what the military did. Most veterans are not anti-war, but most I have met agree that every war since WWII was a pointless war. And the only reason they think that the world wars were not pointless is because they were not veterans before those wars started.
And the only reason the idiots who never served can start those wars in the first place is because of those in the service who obeyed even though the orders are plainly unconstitutional.
Forgive me if I'm not thrilled with the idea of handing the reigns exclusively to the group who has served as the mailed fist of Zion for decades.
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