The 17toVote Coalition is fighting to lower the voting age in California: “We are a politically aware generation. We grew up with the habit of entering a room and checking where the nearest exits are because we’re scared'
, a majority of adults oppose 17-year-olds receiving the right to vote; even more oppose 16-year-olds voting. The breakdown is predictably skewed: those aged 18-34 are most likely to support lowering the voting age.
While it seems like naysayers are quick to argue that kids don’t know enough to be informed, that couldn’t be further from the truth — and believing it is belies a certain arrogance and dismissiveness that could be older generations’s undoing. Moreover, 18-year-old Bella Robakowski told MTV News that young people have so much to lose. Her work as the president of the gun violence prevention organization Never Again SoCal was all the more galvanized when a perpetrator killed 12 people in the November 2018 mass shooting“We are a politically aware generation,” she said. “We are the ones experiencing what it feels like to not feel safe at a video gaming convention, a country bar to go dancing, or a movie theater.
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