Democrat Andrew Yang, currently running for the office of New York City Mayor, said on Tuesday that he wanted to give voting rights to non-citizens. Of course, for the Democrats, the more people vote that feel indebted and dependent to them the better. In fact, the more people vote the better, given that most people are simply not aware enough to vote, do not understand policy, and will be easily duped by false promises.
Yang was joined in Battery Park by City Council Member Carlos Menchaca, and before saying non-citizens should be voting, he had also said that teenagers should also have the right to vote.
“The second thing we should do is expand the franchise to non-citizens, lawful permanent residents. Now we’re here in part inside the Statue of Liberty because New York City is a city of immigrants. I myself am the son of immigrants. And immigrants form the core of so many of our neighborhoods and communities. There are approximately 6220,000 lawful permanent residents, you probably think of them as green card holders, who are responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Their kids go to our schools. They supply many of the jobs that we rely upon. They should have a say in the future of their city too.” He stated.
Prior to those remarks he had spoken about teenagers voting as well, “Now, how can we continue to invest in our democracy to make it better here in New York City? I think we should enable young people to vote starting at age 16. Now let’s think about why this might be. Right now, older voters vote at very, very high levels, which is great but then policy tends to skew in that direction because politicians follow the votes. And so many young people don’t feel like their voices are being heard and that has a self-reinforcing dynamic where if a young person thinks, ‘Oh, my voice won’t be heard,’ then they get discouraged and they aren’t as activated in our democracy.”
Most teenagers are very much unaware of policy, and they are unaware of how taxes work. There is an overwhelming desire from democrats to get dependent and uninformed people to vote, one can only draw the conclusion that that is the only legal way they can win an election.
The University of Rochester Medical Center has noted that teen’s brains are not fully developed, and that they won’t be until they are at least 25. Perhaps the more responsible decision then, for the well-being of society, would be to raise the voting age, not to lower it.
The article “Understanding the Teen Brain” by the University states:
The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so. In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part.
In teens’ brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making center are still developing—and not always at the same rate. That’s why when teens have overwhelming emotional input, they can’t explain later what they were thinking. They weren’t thinking as much as they were feeling.
NY1 news pointed out that “Yang himself has never voted in a New York City election, despite having lived here for 25 years. He missed some federal and state elections as well.” Perhaps Yang should start practicing what he preaches a bit more often.
