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BEWARE  OF A PIED PIPER

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Now that we are gearing up for the national election of November 2016 in which we will elect the next president of the United States, I cannot help but remember how in 2008 as I watched Barack Hussein Obama cast his magic spell over young prospective voters I was reminded of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin.
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You will recall that in the story, when the City of Hamlin was overrun by rats the good burghers sought a solution to the infestation.  Along came a piper who offered to draw the rats aways from the city for a price.  The burghers agreed and the Piper played his pipe and the rats followed him into the local river and were drowned.
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When the Piper returned to collect his reward the burghers reneged on their commitment and so the Piper began playing his pipe again and drew all the young people of the city out and away from the city and they were never seen again.
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Considering all that has happened in the United States since the election of Barack Hussein Obama with the help of so many new young voters, in retrospect it seems to me that maybe it was a mistake to lower the voting age.  I am not entirely convinced of that because youth has so much to offer through their idealism which jaded adults have lost.  But recently I ran across a passage of the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle written in 350 B.C. that suggests that maybe indeed it was a mistake to lower the voting age.
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Here is the passage:
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All people are good at making distinctions about the things they are acquainted with, and each is a good judge of those things.  Therefore, good judgement goes along with the way each one is educated, and the one who has been educated about everything has it in an unqualified way.  For this reason, it is not appropriate for a young person to be a student of politics, since the young are inexperienced in the actions of life, while these are the things about which politics speaks and from which it reasons.  Also, since the young are apt to follow their impulses, they would hear such discourses without purpose or benefit, since their end is not knowing but action.  And it makes no difference whether one is young in age or immature in character, for the deficiency doesn’t come from the time, but from living in accord with feeling and following every impulse.  For knowledge comes to such people without profit, as it does to those who lack self-restraint; but to those who keep their desires in proportion and act in that way, knowing about these things would be of great benefit.    (Chapter 3, 4-17)

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As we enter the campaign season and approach the voting in November, 2016, the young voters who voted overwhelmingly for Barach Hussein Obama are presumably now wiser, at least they are eight years older.

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So we have to wonder about those who will be casting their first ballot in November 2016.  Will they be wiser than the 2008 young voters?  They should be since they will have reached voting age during the decline in America and the looming prospect of World War III made possible by the failed foreign policies of the Obama/Hillary Clinton/John Kerry Administration.  At least we can pray that they will be more astute than the 2008 young voters.

– Abyssum