Legality

written in December '23

the politician wants the vote,

and maybe a weakened

position on the world stage…

 

lowering the voting age

likely did that,

that is if you subscribe

to the domino theory…

 

but regardless of what

armchair and professional

historians might think,

the governing document

was amended and it

exposed yet another

deep flaw in American

culture that nobody really

seems to give two s***s about…

 

you can vote and serve in

the military at the age of eighteen,

but the purchase and taking in of

alcohol and nicotine is restricted

to the age of twenty-one…

 

why is this?

 

why do we accept this?

 

why do we not question this?

 

why is adulthood staggered like this?

 

is it supposed to be a reward or punishment?

 

nobody seems all that

bothered by it,

but it’s not like such

deep contradictions have

bothered people before…

 

women weren’t allowed to

vote until over a century ago,

even though it was very clear

they could hold their own

in the political arena…

 

this is literally the other half

of the American population,

and such a contradiction was

considered socially acceptable…

 

the cognitive dissonance

is enough to shatter

anyone’s rational mind…

 

and yet under the

watchful eye of the

tangerine trashcan fire,

the age to purchase

and take in tobacco

products was made

equal to the age to

purchase and take in

alcoholic beverages…

 

and not one person

really raised an eyebrow

about it in question,

in consternation,

in outright rage about

the pure stupidity of it all…

 

and yet the teens and

new adults will find ways

to get them regardless

of the legality,

because parents are

neither god or big brother…

 

rinse, lather, repeat…

 

and so on…

 

so it goes