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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