Despite their claims to the contrary, the nine liberal members of the Boston City Council displayed crass, partisan opportunism by recently voting to let 16- and 17-year-olds vote in local elections.
Let’s be clear. Anyone who remembers their high school years or has raised children through those same years knows that few teenagers have the experience, judgment or emotional maturity to make important political decisions in the voting booth.
If the sponsors of this cynical change actually believe that teenagers have the informed judgment to make such decisions, why haven’t they lowered the required age for a host of other decisions that in Massachusetts, like in most states, require you to be 18 and a legal adult?
