Voting Rights for Younger Generations

I've gotten in some hot water for proposing we consider

Overweighting the the votes of younger people

or assigning the youngest eligible voters proxy votes for the unrepresented children of our country

So those are edgy. Why not?

Why not assign them to those children's parents?

Well, because there's there's a divergence of interest between parents and children

And I think it's likelier that young people not people

who are raising families will have the best insight into the interests

of Children, whereas you if you were awarded five, I think

that's I think it's absurd to imagine that a 24 year old

recent college graduate has a better assessment of the interests

of my own children than I do

I'm and I say this with all due respect

to 24 year old recent college graduates of whom

I hope to be the parent of nine years or so

I think parents generally and Confused the interests

of their family with the interests of their children

and part of our goal I think as parents

but also as a society is trying to make sure

That children aren't the hostages of their parents

as much as we rely on parents to raise them

All right, in my experience parents are more likely to be the

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