Voting as all of you know is an extremely important part of our lives.
It helps us choose the next best leader to govern our country.
But voting should be left to a number of people who have the potential to understand the deeper parts of elections. Voting is not made on parties because they are "cool" or "gangster". It is entirely based on what the party is going to do for the community and the country.
Parties change. Laws change and so do political leaders. Along with these changes comes new laws and 16 year olds have to come out to learn more about these laws.
I do agree that younger people need to be more interested with politics but to give them the right to vote before they are fully educated will make it hard for them. Many young people do not seem to know about their countries history and how it works to help us and other countries.
There is a saying which goes like this, "Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it". And this may well apply to a lot of teenagers. Not all, but some. But its not just the 16 year olds that I am talking about. Its also the age groups from 18 to 24 which I am also looking at. As you may know a lot of even eligible teens did not vote or showed signs of enthusiasm in voting. I would suggest 16 year olds should involve in politics but as a volunteer, get educated and experienced in the process and be well and truly ready for the next election.
Hi. I agree with your statement. 16 Year olds are far too immature and unaware to give their blind vote purely because their friend voted for National. A lot of 16 year olds at that age would find it funny to vote on a group that maybe seems funny to them at the time which would bring a lot of changes to parliament. This was an interesting piece and am looking forward to see what you post next.
ReplyDeleteI think you have come up with a great argument. You have made some very good points in regards to your topic. I completely agree with your statement when you mention that this is not just a problem for teenagers between 16-18 but also those of us between the age of 18 and 24. I was eligible to vote during the last elections but didn't, simple based on facts that you have mentioned in your blog. Being given the opportunity to take part in choosing the next leader of our country is essentially quite a big thing. Politics like most young adults is a topic I know next to nothing about, if I were to vote it would most likely have been for all the wrong reasons. You backed up a lot of the evidence in your first blog post by making good use of hyper-links; it could be useful for you to use hyper-links in this post to give your argument some validity.
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