Why That One Particular Issue?

Twenty-One Debunked, hence our name, has long been advocating for lowering the 21 drinking age to no higher than 18 since our founding in 2009, and since then has also advocated lower the other emerging 21 age limits (tobacco, cannabis, etc.) to no higher than 18 as well, for the same reasons.  We believe setting any age limits higher than the legal age of majority (18 in nearly all states, and nearly all countries as well), especially (but not only) ones that are in any way related to bodily autonomy and/or cognitive liberty, is unjust, unethical, unconstitutional, and ultimately does far more harm than good.  And it clearly has NO place in any free society worthy of the name.  Period.

But doesn't that make us a single-issue, one-trick pony, you say?  Surely there must be more pressing issues than that, right?  And surely even the youth rights movement has more pressing issues, right?  It's not like merely lowering the drinking age to 18 would result in any sort of utopia in practice, anymore than legalizing weed would somehow usher in the Age of Aquarius, right?

Well, as the saying goes, "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."  Natch.  We have already established that adultism is THE central keystone Jenga block of the greater kyriarchy, hands down.  And while striking the root of the problem is ultimately far more important than striking the branches, the fact remains that some of the branches get in the way of even reaching that root in the first place.  Few branches are as obnoxiously obtrusive as the 21 drinking age, toxic and corrosive to society, an outlier among outliers from a global perspective, and utterly symbolic of literally everything that is wrong the the USA in the current timeline since the 1980s.  It is truly an egregious affront to the America that could have been.

We have said it before, and we'll say it again.  Let America Be America Again, and lower the drinking age to 18.  If you're old enough to go to war, you're old enough to go to the bar.  

'Nuff said.