"nightjar" wrote in message
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On 17/01/2021 07:45, David P wrote:
Neuroscientists now claim that the human brain is not
fully developed until age 25-30. We should therefore
raise the voting age to that level. Military service is
different: obedience is valued over thoughtfulness.
With elections, the reverse, thoughtfulness rather than
obedience, should yield better outcomes.

It didn't with Brexit. Leaving seems to have been driven by emotion,
rather than thought.

Most politics is, you are usually a rightist or a leftist
by gut feeling that careful thoughtful analysis of the facts.

And there are few facts to do a thoughtful analysis
of too, most obviously with whether the economy
will be better or worse after brexit, particularly
when the detail of the trade agreement isnt known,