no vote for voting rights

how do we not get to vote for voting rights? why is this not a big thing that's saved for election day? we're able to vote for other stuff, but not the actual rights that dictate how voting works. there's over 300 million people in this country, and the voting process is completely left in the hands of nine old people in robes. where's the democracy in that? forget all this rigid legalese based on random court cases that somehow float themselves upstream to the holiest of u.s. courts. we'll tell you what we want. let us decide.

and just imagine the kinda wacky shit we could come up with then. if left in the hands of the people, we could make things really interesting. i wanna see our presidential nominees debate in full clown uniforms. or maybe we can drop the voting age to 12 and watch as politicians have to fine tune their strategy to appeal to a brand new voting demographic who's greatest concern is how much homework they get and how late their parents let them stay out at night. see? this could be fun!

i'd like to think this would get more people to show up for voting. but hey, maybe it won't. maybe 51% of the country will vote to do away with voting altogether. and if that be the will of the people, then democracy has spoken. and then maybe it'd be acceptable to let the decisions be made in some arcane manner... like i don't know, maybe a cabal of nine wise men/women calling all the shots behind closed doors. and if that's what we voted on, then fuck it, i'm cool with it. rock on supreme court.

but until then, let us call the shots.