Today’s focus on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris should not obscure the contest for control of Congress. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution unambiguously declares: “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” However, neither Republican advocates of a unitary presidency nor Democratic supporters of a living Constitution appear to have read this far in the nation’s founding document. (READ MORE: Is Walz Worse Than Newsom?) Since I do not aspire to the powers of the president, but to those of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, I here proclaim that like him: As some day it may happen that a victim must be found I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And who never would be missed, who never would be missed The Mikado list included: Apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind and: The idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone All centuries but this, and every country but his own. To this admirable listing, we may add the adherents of an organization known as Generation Citizen, supported by among others the Bezos Family Foundation, the Jennifer and Allan Soros Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which sponsor an advocacy group called Vote 16 USA agitating for a reduction in the voting age to 16 (but not, of course, in the age of criminal responsibility. Instead ‘liberals’ are quick to remind that brains do not fully mature until age 25). (READ MORE: Kamala and Her Price-Control Scheme Straight Outta Berkeley) The efforts of this group to reduce the voting age in California primary elections to 17, surprisingly failed in a 2020 referendum in that state by 56 percent. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed a 16-year-old national voting age on the revealing ground that, “I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school when they’re interested in all of this when they’re learning about the government to be able to vote.” This is despite the fact that less than ever before can it be said, of teenagers, in Emerson’s words, that “they do not postpone life, but live already.” It was because of immaturity and inexperience that Chancellor Bruning of Germany in 1932 and Chancellor Schushnigg of Austria in 1937 urged that the voting age be raised to 25 to combat their country’s Nazis. (READ MORE: Republicans Must Make a Laser-Focused, Issues-Based Case to the People) Thus we may add to the Mikado’s list the 125 Democrats who in a House roll call vote on March 3, 2021, supported a federal voting age of 16: YEAS 125: Adams Auchincloss Bass Beatty Beyer Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle, Brendan F. Brown Brownley Bush Carbajal Carson Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cooper Correa Crist Davis, Danny K. DeFazio DelBene Delgado DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Foster Frankel, Lois Gallego García (IL) Golden Gomez Gonzalez, Vicente Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Haaland Hastings Hayes Higgins (NY) Jackson Lee Jacobs (CA) Jayapal Johnson (TX) Jones Kahele Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim (NJ) Kirkpatrick Lamb Langevin Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Leger Fernandez Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lieu Lowenthal Malinowski Maloney, Sean McGovern Meng Moulton Murphy (FL) Neal Neguse Newman Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pascrell Payne Phillips Pingree Pocan Pressley Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Rice (NY) Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Ryan Schakowsky Schiff Sewell Smith (WA) Soto Speier Stanton Strickland Swalwell Takano Thompson (MS) Tlaib Tonko Torres (NY) Trahan Underwood Vargas Velázquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) Yarmuth The post Democrats Want to Lower the Voting Age appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.