It’s important to note what the Federal government did, and didn’t do, in regards to the drinking age. They didn’t raise the legal drinking age, the Federal government has no such power to to that. The 21st amendment leaves states free to set their own alcohol laws.
▪️What the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984 did was to withhold 10% of a state’s highway funds (8% after 2012) if they didn’t prohibit those under 21 from “purchasing or publicly possessing alcoholic beverages.”
https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/the-1984-national-minimum-drinking-age-act
▪️Which basically bullied every state into writing such laws, although states still vary in their “drinking age” laws. Some states don’t prohibit minors from consuming alcohol in private or with family members, or in certain settings, others have a blanket ban and a real “drinking age” of 21.
▪️The layman might confuse these terms and concepts, but this was written by a distinguished lawyer, so he knows the difference (or should know).
▪️Interestingly, most states used to have a drinking age of 21. During the 1960’s with the push to lower voting to 18 (“old enough to fight, old enough to vote”) this changed. Since 18 was now considered an adult, this logically applied to other areas like cigarettes and alcohol, and states lowered the age.
▪️It’s interesting now that 21 is once again being used as the adult age in areas like cigarettes, alcohol, guns, but not for voting (or for the draft).
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
