The Pros And Cons Of The Elderly Voting

The United States of America; land of the free and home of the brave. Over the past two hundred and forty years of being a nation, we have continually prevented groups of people from voting in our democratic republic. From African Americans to women, we have withheld the right to vote; it is time again to restrict voting, but this time for those sixty-five years of age and older, the elderly. The U.S. has an increasing number of elderly people that have continually growing radically conservative views. With an ever-growing need for change in this country, these ultra-conservative views have to be withheld. The future is not with these elders; the future is with those who reap the consequences of these conservative ideals. The Millennials of …show more content…
Dementia occurs in every one in five people over the age of sixty-five (Alzheimer’s Association), and the United States has over five million people voting with a type of dementia. With those kind of facts and no ability to test mental capacity, we cannot continually let these elderly people vote with the possibility that they may not even know who or what they are voting for. As stated by the Alzheimer’s Association, “The choice is left to you as a caregiver or family member to determine the person 's capability to formulate a voting decision.” A caregiver or family member may be so extremely indulged in their life of politics, that they force these problematic elders to vote in support of what the caregiver or family member encourages. While dementia is a continually growing and intense problem in the United States, the massive numbers of those over sixty-five who are at the mercy of dementia still have the option to legally vote in our system. Action needs to be taken to protect this country from the dangers that it faces with the elderly …show more content…
In order for any change to occur in the United States, we must ratify an amendment to the United States Constitution that bans those over the age of sixty-five from voting. The elders in our country do not have our best interests in mind when taking their votes to the polls; they see a problematic country that they want to fix in their own way, which consists of rash decisions that ultimately lead to a further destruction of our society. If the United States were opened up to a younger voting base with an entire future ahead of them, problems may be more likely to be fixed rather than put off or merely bitched about by the older generation. Amending the Constitution in this way opens up more doors to the upcoming generation, the generation that will actually be around for the next president of the United States, and closes opportunities for the United States to regress in the change that the future generations wish to