CA is considering lowering the age to vote to 17, a time when most CA high school students will be enrolled in Civics. The premise behind this movement is to get more citizens involved in a process which will impact them directly.
Speaking as a father of an 18yo and 22yo with lots of friends, today's kids 'know more than us adults', and the sources of their 'knowledge / brilliance' are primarily anything posted by friends / anyone on Facebook, Tumblr, SnapChat, Twitter, Whisper, etc...not Civics class or any other factual, educational / informational sources.
Add to this the fact that public schools and colleges, as demonstrated by Berkley and other colleges recently, have become little more than 'Indoctrination Camps', and the actual 'danger' this country is in from the immature, 'uneducated', 'programmed' children who are supposed to be our 'Future' is, IMO, very real and growing.
Although being somewhat facetious, I would almost recommend / hope to see the voting age be RAISED to 21 (for 'maturity' sake) and have a mandatory IQ test voters must pass before they are allowed to vote (something simple, such as if you can not name the current VP by name you probably aren't smart enough to vote).

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