{"id":68745,"date":"2018-12-11T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68745"},"modified":"2018-12-10T19:36:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:36:29","slug":"when-you-think-its-got-to-be-babylon-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68745","title":{"rendered":"When You Think It\u2019s Got To Be \u201cBabylon Bee\u201d&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/dec\/06\/give-six-year-olds-the-vote-says-cambridge-university-academic\">But it&#8217;s not:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The head of politics at Cambridge University has called for children as young as six to be given the vote in an attempt to tackle the age bias in modern democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Prof David Runciman said the ageing population meant young people were now \u201cmassively outnumbered\u201d, creating a democratic crisis and an inbuilt bias against governments that plan for the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In the latest episode of his podcast, Talking Politics, he said lowering the voting age to 16 was not radical enough to address the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then again\u2026 maybe it is?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the worst that could happen? At least it would be exciting, it would make elections more fun. It is never going to happen in a million years but as a way of capturing just how structurally unbalanced our democracies have become, seriously, why not? Why not six-year-olds?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, it seems like a terrible idea.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the rhetoric of campaigns like those from &#8220;Alliance for a Better Minnesota&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t need to be especially rewritten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 But it&#8217;s not: The head of politics at Cambridge University has called for children as young as six to be given the vote in an attempt to tackle the age bias in modern democracy. Prof David Runciman said the ageing population meant young people were now \u201cmassively outnumbered\u201d, creating a democratic crisis and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,51,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites-education","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68760,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68745\/revisions\/68760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}