I don’t agree with everything in this piece, but it reminds me of something that I’ve discussed before.

I’m guessing that in my lifetime, the age of legal adulthood will be raised to somewhere in the 22-25 range. Utterly irrational — I’d support it being lowered to 16 — but that’s the way society is moving.

We’ve already seen examples of this with the drinking age being raised to 21, so it’s not without precedent.

Of course Republicans will be very much in support of this because it will remove a lot of Democrat-leaning voters from the rolls.

And lefties will support it as well because they are in general nearly as paternalistic and prone to helicopter-parenting as their counterparts on the right (actually probably more prone to helicopter-parenting).