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Seriously, the 99% Hitler party could win over a lot of young voters if they stopped being such prudes over smoking, vaping, marijuana, and got all the age requirements to line up. If you're old enough to die for America you should be able to drink!
It's these dumb hills they die on that are largely performative that alienate a lot of people. It's why the "healthcare pls" meme continues to be relevant. They can't actually challenge entrenched power or capital influence so they go for all this bullshit on the margins and sometimes those margins are where people are able to find things like vaping or weed or whatever that help them cope with the insurmountable systemic problems in their lives. Like banning giant soda. Soda is unhealthy. It's actually kinda gross. But how about those corn subsidies? Those will continue. So now you can only drink 48 ounces instead of 64 ounces of high fructose diabetes juice. Won't somebody think of the children?!
Personally I think we should just set everything to 19. It means raising the age of consent, the voting age, loans, legal contracts, and the age you can join the military. You'd get a lower drinking age, smoking age, some protections/rights only available to people who are 21, etc.
The reason is because by 19, you've graduated high school. Then we assume you're now an adult old enough to do adult stuff. If you're old enough to get married you should be able to drink at your wedding. If you're old enough to fight in a war you should be old enough to rent a car.
The US has a Madonna-whore complex that's all kinds of ass backwards.
Which one is that again? I can't tell anymore