UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
I love universal suffrage. It means that everyone has the right to vote and together, we decide who decides what we do. Then, the other day I realized something: I actually can't vote!!!
In an egalitarian society, one would think that there would be no arbitrary categories which prevent people from voting, but there are. I know because I am in one. I am a MINOR.
I don't have the right to choose the leaders, but I have the responsibility to follow them.
UNIVERSAL suffrage means to everyone, and people died to obtain that right, and yet we still don't have it. Because I fall into the government-made category of "minor", I can't make any change in government.
People should never discriminate, whether based on Gender, Race, Nationality, Sexuality, or Age and, together we should all decide who leads us.
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