Ramaswamy Proposes Restricting Voting Age: Expanding Suffrage to Children & Their Parents Would Achieve Same Goals, but Better

Isn't it ironic?!

Republican Party Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has proposed to raise the voting age to 25, allowing younger adults to vote only if they pass the immigrant citizenship test or serve as first responders or military. Professor Glenn Reynolds of the Instapundit blog, and perhaps merely as satire the famed science fiction author Robert Heinlein, have put forth similar proposals.

Although a seemingly great idea, these figures could actually achieve the same goals much better by taking the opposite approach: Opening up universal suffrage voting rights to children, with the caveat that parents can cast their children's ballots even without the child's involvement at all. This Non-Violence publication has advocated expanding universal suffrage voting rights to children in two past articles, one dealing with the why, and the other article with the how.

Allowing parents to cast their children's ballots, even without the child's involvement, is key to making this universal suffrage voting rights for children proposal to satisfy the goals that Ramaswamy, Heinlein, and Reynolds have: to decrease the influence of irresponsible people on politics. They identify first responders and military as categories of youth who evidently have taken a great deal of responsibility. They should add a third category of evidently responsible adults and voters: parents.

Humanity is dying out. No society with a high standard of living has birthrates above replacement; they all either vampire immigrants from poor countries like the USA, Sweden, France & Britain, or choose to die out, like Germany, Japan & China. It is evidently true that wealthy societies are not friendly to parenting, families, or children, because they are not having enough of any of those.