The voting age should be dropped to sixteen! That's absurd.

Michelle Malkin, author of the "Michelle Malkin Blog", has a recent blog post which she is disagreeing with Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe who tweeted, “Wouldn’t it be great if the voting age were lowered to 16? Just a pipe dream, I know, but . . . #Children’sCrusade?” and University of Kentucky law professor Joshua Douglas who asserted that "'we should include them more directly in our democratic process' by enfranchising them now." Both statements are formed around the current attention that our nation's teenagers have been receiving due to the hundreds of walk-outs and protests they have organized in relation to the Parkland School shooting this past February. Malkin believes that even the thought of letting sixteen-year-olds vote in our country is absurd. Malkin, who has two teenagers herself, notes that "[They] are fueled by hormones and dopamine and pizza and Sonic shakes. They’re fickle and fragile and fierce and forgetful. They hate you. They love you. They need you. They ignore you. They know everything. They know nothing. All in the span of 10 seconds." She believes that they are essentially not capable of understanding the process and the repercussions that go into the fight for banning the AR-15 rifle or wanting to change the gun laws. Malkin does note that there are certainly many students participating these protests who are well above their age and remarkably smart. However, they still do not have the "wisdom" that Malkin believes is needed to understand our history, laws and public policies.

Malkin's intended audience for this article would be for both those who believe that we should include teenagers in our democracy by letting them vote and those who do not agree with letting teenagers vote in elections at the age of sixteen. The audience of Malkin's blog could trust her credibility due her being a guest on Fox and Friends, a well-known opinion writer as well as being a guest speaker at several Universities for conservative leaders. However, those who tend to have a liberal ideology most likely would not find Malkin as credible than those who view themselves as conservative with her same opinions.

I believe that Malkin has effectively used her personal knowledge of teenagers and her thought process to give her opinion on not letting teenagers vote due to their lack of wisdom, knowledge of laws, policies and history and their immaturity. I do agree with Malkin in that the voting age of eighteen was designed for a reason and that we do not let those younger vote for the reasons stated above. Overall, I believe that  Malkin is correct with her argument and that many others should read this post and hopefully see the side from a different point of view.