{"id":1299587,"date":"2022-02-15T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299587"},"modified":"2022-02-15T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:23:24","slug":"6-steps-the-democrats-will-take-to-fundamentally-alter-america-and-ensure-their-permanent-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-steps-the-democrats-will-take-to-fundamentally-alter-america-and-ensure-their-permanent-power\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Steps The Democrats Will Take To Fundamentally Alter America And Ensure Their Permanent Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F6-steps-the-democrats-will-take-to-fundamentally-alter-america-and-ensure-their-permanent-power%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299587&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Readers-Pass-Johnson-6-Steps-The-Democrats-Will-Take-To-Fundamentally-Alter-America-And-Ensure-Their-Permanent-Power-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Since at least 2016, Democrats have cast themselves as the protectors of \u201cour democracy.\u201d Democrats claimed that, first imaginary Russian agents, then well-coifed presidents and perfidious Republicans wanted to \u201cdisenfranchise voters\u201d and assault \u201cOur Democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the U.S. form of government is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/american-founders\/report\/america-republic-not-democracy\">a republic, not a democracy<\/a>, it\u2019s clear Democrats do not intend to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/the-constitution\/commentary\/never-have-we-had-defend-the-constitution-we-have-today\">protect the U.S. Constitution<\/a>, which Barack Obama once <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2008\/10\/socialism-we-can-believe-in\/\">said<\/a> \u201creflected&nbsp;<em>the<\/em>&nbsp;fundamental flaw of this country&nbsp;<em>that continues to this day.<\/em>\u201d (Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n<p>What exactly do Democrats envision when they talk about designing, redefining, and protecting \u201cOur Democracy\u201d? The short answer is, they emphasize the <em>modifier<\/em> rather than the <em>noun<\/em>: Democratic officials seek to radically reorient fundamental U.S. institutions and traditions to create a system that will increase their party\u2019s chances of holding onto power. From changing the electoral map to reclassifying who can vote, Democrats plan to thwart any attempt by voters to regain power from their clutches.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few Democratic proposals to fundamentally change the United States for their partisan advantage:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Allowing non-citizens to vote in U.S. elections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When New York City\u2019s Democrat-controlled city council passed a law allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-moves-to-grant-800k-non-citizens-ability-to-vote-in-local-elections\">800,000<\/a> non-citizens to vote in city elections, The New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/09\/nyregion\/noncitizens-nyc-voting-rights.html\">quoted<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyic.org\/about-us\/staff\/\">community organizer<\/a> Murad Awawdeh, who called it \u201cthe largest expansion to our democracy in the past century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/leading-house-democrat-says-i-fully-support-nyc-allowing-noncitizens-to-vote\">said<\/a>, \u201cI fully support\u201d letting non-Americans vote in NYC elections, justifying his view based on America\u2019s \u201csystem of federalism.\u201d Even New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has been touted as a more sensible brand of Democrat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rnc-sues-nyc-over-noncitizen-voting-rights-law-american-elections-should-be-decided-by-american-citizens\">said<\/a> he would \u201csupport this important legislation,\u201d vowed to fight for the bill in court, and seemed ready to radically expand the ranks of non-Americans voting in the city well beyond 800,000 people. \u201cI look forward to bringing millions more into the democratic process,\u201d Adams told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/09\/nyregion\/noncitizens-nyc-voting-rights.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clear-eyed analysts saw that the move disenfranchised New York voters. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), said the new law \u201cdilutes\u201d the votes of U.S. citizens. On the other hand, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2021\/12\/29\/you-didnt-always-have-be-citizen-vote-america\/\">warned<\/a> darkly that the grassroots movement to restrict U.S. elections to American citizens \u201creflects resurgent nativist sentiment\u201d and \u201callows politicians to spread fear.\u201d As a result, \u201cnoncitizen voting bans should leave us equally concerned for\u2026 the voting rights of all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, New York Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/10\/ny-republicans-sue-to-block-law-allowing-non-citizens-to-vote\/\">sued<\/a> to stop the measure on the radical grounds that \u201cwe shouldn\u2019t be allowing citizens of other nations to vote in&nbsp;our&nbsp;elections, full stop. \u2026 This lawsuit is the only thing that will stop [Democrats] from their ultimate goal of eradicating all the lines between citizens and non-citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forget the fact that it\u2019s blatantly illegal. The New York state constitution says, \u201c<em>Every citizen<\/em> shall be entitled to vote at every election for all officers elected by the people and upon all questions submitted to the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen years of age or over and shall have been a resident of this state, and of the county, city, or village for 30 days next preceding an election,\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/constitution\/new-york\/article-ii\/section-1\/\">Article II, Section 1<\/a>. (Emphasis added.) The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/104\/crpt\/hrpt828\/CRPT-104hrpt828.pdf\">Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996<\/a> makes it \u201cunlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for\u201d any federal office, but states and localities can decide who votes in local elections.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that the measure helps pad Democratic voter rolls and, hence, serves \u201cour democracy\u201d in their eyes. \u201cOpinion surveys and information from recent elections suggest that immigrant voters often support Democratic Party candidates,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/learningenglish.voanews.com\/a\/new-us-citizens-look-forward-to-voting\/5538093.html\">according<\/a> to the Voice of America. The estimated 14.5 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/immigration-statistics\/Pop_Estimate\/LPR\/lpr_population_estimates_2015_-_2019.pdf.pdf\">permanent<\/a> legal or temporary residents in the United States could certainly change the orientation of \u201cour democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Allowing criminals, including terrorists, to vote from jail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a 2019 CNN town hall meeting, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bernie-sanders-let-terrorists-sex-predators-ryan-saavedra\">said<\/a> he would favor letting incarcerated prisoners, including the terrorist who bombed the Boston Marathon, cast a ballot from their jail cells. \u201cI think the right to vote is inherent to <em>our democracy<\/em>. Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away \u2026 you\u2019re running down a slippery slope,\u201d Sanders said. (Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times had already identified prisoners as a vital source of America\u2019s democratic strength, running an op-ed by Janai Nelson, an NAACP official, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2016\/04\/22\/should-felons-ever-be-allowed-to-vote\/felon-disenfranchisement-is-anti-democratic\">Felon Disenfranchisement Is Anti-Democratic<\/a>.\u201d Nelson wrote, \u201c[L]aws that prevent prisoners from voting also imprison our democracy. The disfranchisement of people with felony convictions is one of the most pressing civil rights issues of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2009\/06\/sotomayor%E2%80%99s-racialist-judicial-activism\/\">Disenfranchising felons<\/a> who have committed serious crimes goes back to the first democracy, ancient Greece, through the Roman Republic to America\u2019s founders. It was once a bipartisan issue, but then Democrats realized they were leaving votes on the table. As this author has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-one-thing-that-explains-everything-democrats-do\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>As it turns out, leftists have studied the issue of letting ex-convicts vote for years, finding it would benefit Democrats and hurt Republicans. A&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/users.soc.umn.edu\/~uggen\/Uggen_Manza_ASR_02.pdf\"><em>2002 study<\/em><\/a><em>, \u201csupported by grants\u201d from George Soros\u2019 Open Society Institute, found that 70% of convicted felons would vote for Democrats in presidential&nbsp;<\/em><em>and<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Senate races, if they could vote. In fact, they would have strongly supported even fringe Democratic candidates who lost&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu\/c.php?g=992251&amp;p=7179351\"><em>49-state landslides<\/em><\/a><em> \u2026 <\/em><em>\u201cWe conclude that in close Florida presidential races, ex-felon re-enfranchisement can change election outcomes in favor of the Democratic candidate, especially when ex-felons are properly informed of their voting rights,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/344362006_The_Impact_of_Ex-Felon_Disenfranchisement_on_Voting_Behavior?channel=doi&amp;linkId=5f6c59b0299bf1b53eedd4ab&amp;showFulltext=true\"><em>wrote<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>two researchers at California State University-Chico last September.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you think Democrats are \u201csoft on crime,\u201d now imagine what happens after they turn criminals into a coveted voting bloc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Abolishing the Electoral College<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years, Democrats have advocated abolishing the Electoral College, which allows each state to cast a proportional number of votes for the president. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/01\/eric-holder-democrats-redistricting-233546\">devoted himself<\/a> to taking the power to draw voting districts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/11\/28\/independent-commissions-wont-solve-gerrymandering\/2127115002\/\">away from elected leaders<\/a>, said the Electoral College \u201cis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericholder\/status\/1100461695128997889\">undemocratic<\/a>.\u201d Unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hillary-calls-for-end-to-electoral-college\/\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/11\/michael-dukakis-electoral-college-231298\">Michael Dukakis<\/a> have said the Electoral College should be abolished \u2014 Dukakis said it be&nbsp;\u201cshould be at the top of the Democratic priority list.\u201d The New York Times apparently agreed, running a headline that stated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/28\/opinion\/the-electoral-college.html\">The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Time to make Electoral College a vestige of the past. It\u2019s undemocratic, forces candidates to ignore majority of the voters and campaign in a small number of states. The presidency is our one national office and should be decided \u2013 directly \u2013 by the voters <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OyRbXOiBpz\">https:\/\/t.co\/OyRbXOiBpz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Holder (@EricHolder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricHolder\/status\/1100461695128997889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Electoral College was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/conservative-review\/luck-or-prophetic-genius-the-founders-the-electoral-college\">an act of prophetic genius<\/a> from our Founding Fathers. By forcing candidates to win support in every region of the country, they prevented a few large states from imposing their will on the whole country. Alexander Hamilton <a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed68.asp\">wrote<\/a> in Federalist Paper No. 68, \u201cTalents for low intrigue \u2026 may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require \u2026 a different kind of merit to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In practice, relying on a national popular vote means that politicians will cater to a few large population centers while ignoring the concerns of most of the geographic United States.<\/p>\n<p>As an end-run around state sovereignty, Democrats and some Republicans have supported the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). States adopting the NPVIC agree that their state electors will cast their votes for the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote, even if that state\u2019s voters preferred another candidate. Its supporters do not describe how instructing the state\u2019s electors to vote for someone who lost the state election serves democracy. Yet the NPVIC has already been enacted by 15 states and the District of Columbia: \u201cAs of April 26, 2021, the bill&nbsp;has been enacted into law in 16 jurisdictions&nbsp;possessing 195&nbsp;electoral votes, including 4&nbsp;small states (Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Vermont), 8&nbsp;medium-sized states (Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington), 3&nbsp;big states (California, Illinois, New York), and the District of Columbia,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalpopularvote.com\/state-status\">according<\/a> to NationalPopularVote.com. Together, those states control 195 electoral votes; the compact will go into effect once states totaling 270 votes (enough to swing the election) endorse it. This is a transparent power grab designed to erase the roles of states in the federalist system, and a dangerous one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abolishing the U.S. Senate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even with narrow control of the U.S. Senate, Democrats have been unable to enact key pieces of their legislative agenda, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whats-in-joe-bidens-build-back-better-act\">the Build Back Better act<\/a>. Rather than adopt a more mainstream agenda that better reflects the views of the electorate, some Democrats have come up with a unique proposal: abolish the Senate. The longest-serving congressman in U.S. history, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) formally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/12\/4\/18125539\/john-dingell-abolish-senate\">proposed abolishing the Senate<\/a> in his memoir shortly before his recent death. None other than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called the Senate \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10329079\/AOC-demands-crackdown-entitled-Senate-urges-Biden-use-executive-power.html\">fundamentally undemocratic<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B8yZ5X0L0qw\">not democratic at all<\/a>.\u201d Publications from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/abolish-us-senate\/\">Nation magazine<\/a> to fashion mag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/the-case-for-abolishing-the-senate\">GQ<\/a> have called for the U.S. Senate to be abolished. Vox has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/voxdotcom\/status\/1222959659289583616\">insisted<\/a> that the U.S. Senate \u201cmake[s] our democracy less democratic.\u201d A writer for the far-Left Daily Kos even <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politicswolf\/status\/1364273384205348866\">argued<\/a> that Democrats should control the legislative branch, because they regularly win the \u201cSenate popular vote,\u201d a theoretical concept that does not exist in U.S. law.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/ First: The Senate is deeply unrepresentative of the US majority. <\/p>\n<p>With over half of Americans living in only 9 states, only 18 senators represent most of the US. That means less than 50% of America&#8217;s population controls 82% of the Senate. It\u2019s likely to get worse by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vox (@voxdotcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/voxdotcom\/status\/1222959659289583616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As with the Electoral College, Democrats hate the role the Senate allows the states to play in our political system. Our Founding Fathers divided power between state and federal governments to prevent anyone from acquiring enough power to become an autocratic dictator. For that reason, they believed the Senate should \u201cguard \u2026 against an improper consolidation of the States into one simple\u201d umbrella government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[S]overeign States, bound together by a simple league \u2026 however unequal in size, ought to have an EQUAL share in the common councils,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed62.asp\">wrote<\/a> James Madison in Federalist No. 62. \u201c[T]he equal vote allowed to each State is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual States, and an instrument for preserving that\u201d sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Granting statehood to Washington, <\/strong><strong>D.C., and Puerto Rico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you cannot win enough Electoral College votes in the existing 50 states, one possible answer is to add more states. Former President Barack Obama suggested precisely as he politicized Rep. John Lewis\u2019 funeral in 2020. Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/barack-obama-race-and-ethnicity-dc-wire-al-state-wire-racial-injustice-b64c1e7e8599222381a0a7e6c3d76896\">said<\/a> the late congressman would have wanted to make \u201cour democracy \u2026 even better \u2026 by guaranteeing that every American citizen has equal representation in our government, including the American citizens who live in Washington, D.C. and in Puerto Rico.\u201d Last February, Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi&nbsp;said Congress is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/puerto-rico-gov-says-he-expects-statehood-legislation-by-march-with-considerable-support\">morally obligated<\/a>\u201d to act on his island\u2019s statehood legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the high-sounding rhetoric, Democrats quietly let it be known their plan has nothing to do with morality; it\u2019s crassly partisan. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser <a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/bowser-bidens-agenda-not-stalled-dc-granted-statehood\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cToday, we\u2019re talking about [abolishing] the filibuster, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1483144335302479875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1483144335302479875%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_1_8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fijr.com%2Fbowser-bidens-agenda-not-stalled-dc-granted-statehood%2F\">consider this<\/a>: We wouldn\u2019t even be in this situation if Washington, D.C., had two senators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Democrats believe Puerto Rican voters favor their party. Florida media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/fl-ne-democrat-push-puerto-rican-voters-florida-20201024-6m6rwvuf6vbg5jl5mnq2cqaoxa-story.html\">reported<\/a> in 2020 that \u201cDemocrats are trying to mobilize Puerto Ricans to outmuscle Republican Cubans at the voting booth and help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump.\u201d When one pundit <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/july-august-2018\/isle-of-opportunity\/\">made a pitch<\/a> for Puerto Rican statehood in Washington Monthly, her case focused entirely on how it could bolster the Democratic Party\u2019s electoral fortunes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>As the Democratic Party dreams about retaking Congress and the White House in 2020, and considers what it should do with that power, it would be remiss to overlook statehood for Puerto Rico as an urgent, and ideologically consistent, priority. Puerto Ricans on the mainland lean strongly Democratic, and more than twice as many votes were cast on the island in the 2016 Democratic primary as in the Republican one. (Residents of U.S. territories get to vote in the primaries, even though they have no electoral votes.) Statehood could very possibly mean two more Democrats in the Senate, five more in the House, and seven more blue votes in the Electoral College.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All told, granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., would mean six new members in the House of Representatives (five for Puerto Rico, one for D.C.) and four new senators, all or most of whom would be Democrats. Those 10 new votes in the Electoral College could <a href=\"https:\/\/themissouritimes.com\/a-look-at-what-the-new-census-apportionment-data-means-for-missouri\/\">wipe out Missouri<\/a> altogether.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Letting 16 year olds vote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A core legal concept holds that no one should exercise an office he or she lacks the maturity to execute. President Richard Nixon oversaw the reduction of the U.S. voting age from 21 to 18, but now Democrats propose lowering the voting age to 16.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, this is a policy so radical even San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2020\/11\/04\/election-2020-split-decisions-on-lowering-voting-age-to-16-in-san-francisco-oakland\/\">rejected<\/a> it. Polls show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-americans-do-not-want-voting-age-lowered-16-ashe-schow\">84%<\/a> of Americans oppose letting 16-year-old kids vote. Yet only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/politics\/policy-2020\/voting-changes\/lower-voting-age\/\">two<\/a> of the 26 hopefuls in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries said they opposed lowering the voting age to 16; 15 candidates supported the idea or said they were \u201copen\u201d to it.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Democrats have already crafted the legislation to make this a reality. In 2019, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/grabbing-more-votes-far-left-dem-congresswoman-hank-berrien\">introduced<\/a> an <a href=\"https:\/\/pressley.house.gov\/sites\/pressley.house.gov\/files\/HR1%20Amendment.pdf\">amendment<\/a> allowing 16-year-olds to vote in federal elections. \u201cOur young people deserve to have the opportunity to have their right to vote,\u201d she asserted. A year earlier, Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meng.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/meng-introduces-proposed-constitutional-amendment-to-lower-the-voting\">proposed a constitutional amendment<\/a> to let anyone 16 or older vote in all national elections\u2014state, local, and federal.<\/p>\n<p>Their newfound position on expanding \u201cour democracy\u201d may reflect the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2020\/05\/14\/on-the-cusp-of-adulthood-and-facing-an-uncertain-future-what-we-know-about-gen-z-so-far-2\/\">61%<\/a> of Gen Z said they planned to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, backing Democrats by a nearly three-to-one margin. The youngest generation also happens to be the most ideologically left-wing. A 2020 survey found that <a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/10.19.20-VOC-YouGov-Survey-on-U.S.-Attitudes-Toward-Socialism-Communism-and-Collectivism.pdf\">48%<\/a> of Gen Z has a favorable view of socialism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rational part of a teen\u2019s brain isn\u2019t fully developed and won\u2019t be until age 25 or so,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/encyclopedia\/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&amp;ContentID=3051\">noted<\/a> the University of Rochester Medical Center. Researchers say teenagers react emotionally, not rationally.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Democrats seemingly exposed their true intentions: \u201cI myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/434115-pelosi-says-she-backs-lowering-voting-age-to-16\">said<\/a> Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in 2019. \u201cI think it\u2019s really important to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1106246010727268353\">capture<\/a> kids when they\u2019re in high school, when they\u2019re interested in all of this, when they\u2019re learning about government, to be able to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pelosi just advocated for lowering the voting age to 16 years old to &#8220;capture kids when they&#8217;re in high school.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GxPTBPFBLJ\">pic.twitter.com\/GxPTBPFBLJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1106246010727268353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since at least 2016, Democrats have cast themselves as the protectors of \u201cour democracy.\u201d Democrats claimed that, first imaginary Russian agents, then well-coifed presidents and perfidious Republicans wanted to \u201cdisenfranchise &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}