My Bill and speech

I'm doing JSA, which is basically the best thing ever, except maybe science bowl. In JSA, we write bills. My group's bill repeals the 26th amendment and makes it so that you have to pass a test in order to vote rather than be a certain age. I'm only posting this, because I wrote the best speech ever, which is as follows:

As we all know, our former president, George W. Bush, had an IQ of 20, while his vice president fabricated 9/11 in an effort to get Oil.

Our current president, a Kenyan national who is hiding his birth certificate, is, of course, a communist who is hell-bent on destroying America.

I know that it’s hard to vote for a warmongering man with anger management issues, but you know, voting for John McCain can be justified, because Sarah Palin is hot.

Believe it or not, there are people who actually will make decisions based on those ideas. The idea of popular sovereignty exists so that people are able to pick who is best suited for the job. Unfortunately, some people will forget that the popular sovereignty involved in government actually does have higher stakes than those involved in American Idol. While some of us might feel very strongly about our favorite singer on American Idol, whoever wins will not be setting up your death panels, which leads me to my other point.

As we all know, John McCain is senile, and Barack Obama wants to raise taxes. John Kitzhaber thinks that Oregon is ungovernable, and Dino Rossi is a hypocrite who hates the poor. Every politician seems to be slammed for having negative campaign ads, and we all hate them. The sad truth, though, is that they work, true or not. As a result, politicians will often hide behind negative ads and they won’t talk about their actual beliefs. What if there was a way to make misinforming the public disadvantageous and making it an advantage for politicians to tell the truth? In addition, we have somewhat of a demagoguery problem. We hear about the 9/11 conspiracy theories, the birthers, and the death panels. As much as I’d like to believe that the average thinking American wouldn’t believe a second of it, but sadly, I’m not so sure that I can say that definitively. Sadly, demagoguery is serious. Those people who subscribe to these outlandish ideas then proceed to vote based on these lies. What if there were checks on that? What if we made it so that people could not vote based on lies? What if we made it so that people couldn’t vote for people because they’re attractive? Well, here is a constitutional amendment to do just that! Currently, the 26th amendment says that the only thing that can keep people from voting is young age. Now, I’m sure that I’m not the only person in here who is unable to vote because of age, and feels that it’s somewhat unfair that we can’t vote, but the nation’s least informed adult can. Having phonebanked for a political candidate, I’ve talked to a lot of voters, including one who thought that the other candidate was his niece, Christa Lee. The fact that he didn’t even know so much as the gender of one of the candidates shows that he probably shouldn’t be voting (and, by the way, he did decide to vote for the right guy when I told him that Chris Dudley was a man, but he still shouldn’t be voting). Wouldn’t it be better to allow people of any age to vote, so long as they know what the candidates stand for?

Some may accuse this idea of being elitist, unfair, or even anti-American. Well, if you’re saying that, you might want to take a look at yourself, because you are the exact reason that this bill exists.