Attention-whores will always be whores. He must have felt he wasn't being mentioned enough in the news...similar to our POTUSx attempts to scream "look at me!"
Maybe, but I'm not so sure that applies here. Trump is clearly an attention ***** - has been at least since the early '80s. I very clearly remember seeing him on tabloid covers at the grocery store when I was a little kid.
However, I had never heard of Avenatti before he got into the Stormy Daniels story. He's not a Gloria Allred who practically invented the attention whoring lawyer. That's why I suspect he might do this for other reasons. Obviously I don't think he expects to win the nomination and certainly doesn't expect to win the presidency.
Age doesn't always correlate to wisdom. I've experienced extremely knowledgeable and bright 18yr olds...and idiot stoners. This site has some Sr. citizen posters that based on their posts are as equally ignorant and lack wisdom as said stoners.
You are correct. You'll always find anecdotes who go against the stereotypes, because we're generalizing and yes, discriminating on the basis of age. There are probably some very wise 10 year olds out there who would make very good voters and some very unwise and ignorant 50 year olds who have no business in a voting booth yet have the right to vote. So long as we're using age as a qualification for voting, there's no way around that. We'd have to use some other criteria besides age (such as a political awareness or civics test).
It's perfectly fine that if you can fight for your country you should have a voice in deciding your commander-in-chief.
I understood this more during the days of the draft (though I still question why this is true now but wasn't true during WWII). However, we made a permanent constitutional change based on a temporary situation rather than a real structural need for change, and that's almost never a wise move.
In addition, the argument that troops should be able to help choose their commander in chief has some merit. That was the political argument made at the time. However, if that was the real agenda, why didn't we simply do that? We could have given it to all military personnel regardless of age. Instead, we exploited the sympathy people have for the troops to give voting rights to far more LSD and pot-ridden hippies on college campuses. And of course, that was the real agenda.
