JD Vance’s child-voting “experiment” would be great

JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on

Jorkin Dapenis Vance uses sugar substitute in his sweet tea. Pass it on.
- Jelly Donut Vance puts the toilet paper on the far side of the holder, and doesn't have pets. Pass it on.
- James David’s face when you call him Jorkin Dapenis
- Whatever, the pink stuff is the only right stuff for iced tea

“Who gets the extra votes if there’s an odd number of kids and/or the parents are estranged or have opposing views?”

That’s the beauty. The husband, as the head of the family, gets the children’s votes—and his wife’s as well. Also, from now on, her name is “Mrs. “ followed by his name.

I’m sure Vance meant to explain this detail but somehow got sidetracked.

I’m sure Vance meant to explain this detail but somehow got sidetracked.
There was a stuffed loveseat nearby.
- I’m sure you meant, “A yet to be stuffed loveseat nearby”

If we’re going through with this fictitious scenario, using the same logic of childless adults not having the same investment in the future, everyone over the age of 70 should no longer be able to vote for the same reasons.

Something tells me that would help Democrats even more.

Children should be allowed to vote. Kids would show up in droves. They'd get their parents voting. I'd love seeing politicians that were forced to pander to young people. There's no downside.

People like Mr.Beast gain their massive success from producing overstimulating content that attracts a forever young audience that doesn't recognize the basic manipulation and scams that he employs.
This is what politics would turn into if we earnestly let kids vote. Manipulating child audiences is practically a science now.
Even discounting that, in 2016 when I was 16 I was a "both sides are bad" centrist type. I simply didn't have the roots to consider how things like basic public policies would affect me personally. You need some grounded experience in order to realize that the things on screen will affect you and your community directly.
- That's crap. Kids don't outnumber adults, and politicians would still need to appeal to older generations.
  Also, when you were 16, you were right. Both sides are bad. But one side is much, much worse. Politicians would need to spend some time and effort engaging with children and explaining why their policies do matter. Imagine how valuable that would be for a significant population of adults!
  Kids are smarter than we give them credit for. They can smell bullshit, and they will vote their conscience.
- I don't care. No taxation without representation! No country is a democracy unless it allows ALL of its people to vote. This is a matter of equal rights. I also defend the right of mormons and scientologists to vote, and I'll defend the right of children to vote, consequences be damned. If the human species can't raise kids well enough to participate as equals in the electoral process, it deserves to go extinct.
Most adults barely have a clue about the issues they're voting on, let alone kids. And many topics that are voted on aren't really appropriate for children to be discussing. Plus, would you really want our schools to become 6 hours of propaganda for whatever political party is in charge?
Children would be voting virtually at random, to the point where elections would essentially be decided by random chance.
- I’d say the vast majority of things we vote on in politics can be discussed with children. Kids who are talked to like adults mature far more gracefully than those who are artificially shielded from anything mildly uncomfortable.
  Politicians should have to explain directly to kids why their family is deep in medical debt. Or why they can’t have certain books in their library. Or why we should bomb children in other countries.
- What topics are we voting that are not appropriate for children? I went to the polls with my dad almost every time he voted starting at age 6 and he talked with me about most of it.
- More adults would have a better idea if they had been voting as kids. And if you don't think topics like abortion affect kids, you're out of your fucking mind. Schools are already ideological battlefields, with conservatives posting pictures of Jesus and the 10 commandments, forcing kids to stand and pledge allegiance to their God, demanding kids conform to gender roles and societal norms. Shouldn't the people most affected by those decisions have some say in them?
  Adults vote at random. We don't take away their right to vote just because they are uninformed.
What age and why?