Young people should vote at the age of 16, and that's mandatory - says the "policy proposal" of the newly established Equilibrium Institute. According to the institute founded by left-wing researchers, by the age of sixteen, young people have the necessary competence for all elections.
It is also worth quoting Momentum's often voiced or suggested proposition that people over the age of sixty should refrain from voting, even if legally this is nonsense! Barnabás Kádár, who is the distinguished 5th on Momentum's EU list, was able to write this in a post last year . took place. " The populists won the older, poorer, rural and less educated voters, while the opposition lost among the young, more affluent, urban and more educated voters" Therefore, the older people should not go to vote, leave the decision to the young people! Accordingly, they are ineligible!
This reminds me of Dino Buzatti's absurd short story Hajtóvadaszat érelek , in which young people attack the elderly solely because of their age, who are afraid to go out on the streets because of this. Of course, the joke is that one of the young titans notices that they are now chasing him too, that is, he has aged.
I think that in the spirit of replacing the old, "Let's rejuvenate politics! - Let's lower the voting age to 16 from 2026!" – the researchers of the Equilibrium Institute write their research articles with a password. According to their claim, based on the findings of neurology and psychology, by this time we already have all the competences necessary for making a conscious choice. "According to research, people under the age of eighteen are more likely to cast their first vote, and voting is also more likely to become a repeated behavior in their lives," the document argues.
According to the data available on the Internet, the Equilibrium Institute, founded two years ago, appeared before the public last fall, and its leader is Tamás Boros , who was previously a left-wing guest of Simicska's Hír TV debate programs. And the research director of the "think tank" is Gábor Filippov, who previously, after the 2018 elections that brought a two-thirds right-wing victory, came up with the idea that we are living in the age of the hybrid counter-revolution. According to his argument at the time, democracy and the rule of law had collapsed in Hungary, and the in principle neutral state institutional system and the majority of the public had come under party control. The concept of a hybrid regime was a hit in left-wing public discourse for a few more years.
In addition, in the materials of their new institute, they now state that they do not wish to participate in party political battles, and their policy proposals are completely independent of political parties. Their argument based on rationality continues as follows:
"Taking into account the extreme differences in the participation habits of the youngest and older Hungarian voters, there are significant reserves here."
"It is especially important that the first voters use their newly acquired right. A »hard« and a »soft« tool can be used for this. The first option is to make voting mandatory for all Hungarian citizens at least the first time [which may even mean an invalid vote]. Instead of coercion, we can encourage the first vote with incentives, from extra points for admission to higher education to a "voter's bond" modeled after the baby bond and used to prove participation in the election, the researchers elaborate on their proposal.
In addition, it can be read that " using the tool of wikidemocracy, we involve citizens in the legislative process! Let's enable smooth and secure e-voting by 2030
They didn't think of the elderly here either. Momentum is already blackmailing you by saying that if there is no online voting in the primaries (which I don't even understand how it can be, what regulations it is based on, what is its institutional system, what makes it legitimate?), don't count on it. He scared his boss named Gyurcsány a little! Of course it was just nonsense! They called me!
Addressing young people has been a preoccupation of the left-wing background institutions since the parliamentary elections of 2010, which brought the first two-thirds victory for Fidesz.
Source: Hír TV
Already in 2012, Policy Solutions (the former company of the political scientist Tamás Boros, who manages the Equilibrium Institute) prepared a detailed study by addressing almost two thousand people, which was intended as a starting point for "future left-wing youth strategies". According to the figures of the research at the time, the DK was supported by five percent of young people, and the MSZP by only eight percent. The strongest parties in this electorate were Jobbik, LMP and Fidesz.
It is not surprising that a similar proposal was previously put forward by Jobbik, which is moving to the left, and the LMP, which now apostrophizes itself as a green party, both parties wanted - similar to the current proposal of the Equilibrium Institute - that 16-year-olds could also vote.
Source: magyarnemzet.hu
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