{"id":1765191,"date":"2022-12-06T17:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765191"},"modified":"2022-12-06T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:17:37","slug":"leftists-aim-to-expedite-the-public-school-to-democrat-voter-pipeline-with-votes-for-16-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-aim-to-expedite-the-public-school-to-democrat-voter-pipeline-with-votes-for-16-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Aim To Expedite The Public-School-To-Democrat-Voter Pipeline With Votes For 16-Year-Olds"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fleftists-aim-to-expedite-the-public-school-to-democrat-voter-pipeline-with-votes-for-16-year-olds%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=1765191&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--><p>Democrats know how to get votes. Whether it\u2019s hosting Democrat voter drives (at <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/23\/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal government offices<\/a>), knocking door-to-door to <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/it-isnt-time-to-care-who-the-republican-party-2024-nominee-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">harvest (and cure) ballots<\/a>, or asking billionaires to fund their GOTV efforts (see <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/01\/thank-sam-bankman-fried-for-democrats-2022-ground-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sam Bankman-Fried<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>), Democrats have electioneering \u2014 winning \u2014 down to a science. Part of their strategy is knowing which demographics to target. Minorities, suburban women, and young people typically fit the bill. Case in point: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/e2-80-9cwe-e2-80-99ve-grown-up-in-unprecedented-circumstances-from-economic-turmoil-to-the-pandemic-to-climate-change-to-school-shootings-e2-80-9d\/ar-AA140uGx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gen Z came out strong for Democrats<\/a> this past election cycle, and will be a reliable voting bloc for Democrats for the foreseeable future. But Democrats are now looking to expand the youth vote, and they can do it by lowering the voting age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200811174821\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/10\/us\/politics\/campaign-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-in-local-races-ignites-a-debate.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Generation Citizen<\/a> (GC), a nonprofit funded by the leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/foundation-for-civic-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Foundation for Civic Leadership<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/generationcitizen.org\/vote16usa-a-campaign-to-lower-the-voting-age\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1670437318012000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3Kafros1CCnMsWXgYHgFry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has<\/a> a national campaign to lower the federal voting age to 16. GC argues that expanding the vote to 16-year-olds will \u201cdrive demand for better civic education in schools,\u201d which is laughable, considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2011\/0504\/A-third-of-high-school-seniors-lack-basic-grasp-of-civics-US-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a third of high school seniors lack a simple understanding of civics<\/a>. And that\u2019s not changing anytime soon as public schools are starting to resemble <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/28\/elections-will-never-be-a-fair-fight-when-schools-push-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">propaganda mills<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>GC points to two cities that have expanded voting to 16- and 17-year-olds as models for their campaign: Takoma Park and Hyattsville, Maryland. What GC fails to mention is that both of these cities are suburbs of ultra-blue Washington, D.C., and heavily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestplaces.net\/voting\/city\/maryland\/hyattsville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-leaning<\/a>. Tacoma Park is called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/realestate\/2011\/09\/12\/gIQApBZTXK_story.html?_=ddid-8-1670353620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Berkeley of the East<\/a>\u201d for good reason. So, of course expanding the vote to ultra-leftist high schoolers in ultra-leftist areas was a \u201csuccess\u201d (for Democrats)!<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/e2-80-9cwe-e2-80-99ve-grown-up-in-unprecedented-circumstances-from-economic-turmoil-to-the-pandemic-to-climate-change-to-school-shootings-e2-80-9d\/ar-AA140uGx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two-thirds of young voters backed Democrat House candidates<\/a> in the 2022 midterms (and <a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/2022-election-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">27 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29\u00a0cast ballots<\/a>), Democrats are doing everything they can to capitalize on the youth vote, including adding <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/16\/why-did-gen-z-turn-out-to-vote-for-democrats-and-against-their-own-interests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mindless<\/a>, Zoomer high-schoolers to their ranks. This is why there are countless leftist nonprofits dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/foundation-for-civic-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increasing the youth vote<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you change who can vote, you can change the outcome of elections,\u201d\u00a0executive director of the Honest Elections Project Jason Snead told The Federalist. \u201cThis is something the left\u2019s been pushing for quite a while \u2014 along with enfranchising noncitizens and automatic restoration of felon voting rights. They\u2019re always looking for new people to bring into the election system and calculating the targeted groups who will be more likely to vote Democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2021, a majority of House Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/majority-of-house-dems-vote-in-favor-of-amendment-to-lower-voting-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted<\/a> to decrease the federal voting age to 16 as part of an amendment to their disastrous \u201cvoting rights\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/11\/how-h-r-1-would-massively-corrupt-elections-nationwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bill<\/a>. Luckily, the amendment failed. <\/p>\n<p>Despite Democrats\u2019 attempts to lower the voting age, the issue remains deeply unpopular among the American electorate. A Hill\/Harris-X <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/what-americas-thinking\/441838-poll-most-americans-dont-want-to-lower-voting-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> from 2019 shows 84 percent of registered voters opposed allowing 16-year-olds to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have this idea in a democracy that people should elect their government,\u201d Snead said. \u201cBut the left is trying to have the government choose its people, and that is the antithesis of a transparent and accountable government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Victoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generation Citizen is a leftist nonprofit that wants to lower the federal voting age to 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1713484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765191","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}