German Politicians call for Child Suffrage.
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Politicians call for children's vote
A group of cross-party politicians in the German Bundestag has called for the introduction of a children's vote. With the "voting right from birth", parents should be able to vote on behalf of their children. The group said their aim was to attract more attention to children's issues: "It is unfair that more than 5 percent of Germany's citizens cannot vote". The group's draft petition which was presented on Thursday calls for the possibility for parents to vote in the name of their children until they reach the age of 18 and that parents should talk to their children about election decisions as soon as they reach an appropriate age. Critics say these propositions are naive. "Many parents have a completely different opinion in politics than their children", Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk from the Greens said.
...Are there really that many people in the world who are so stupid as to not understand that some people, IE, children, are simply not mentally developed enough to vote until later in life, IE, when they're adults, and that by necessity suffrage needs to come at an arbitrary age? And that, as that Green succinctly pointed out (rather incredibly), giving their parents the control of a vote for them would just be giving their parents an additional vote (or vote). People from certain groups--like, say, fundamentalists, either Christians (in the U.S.) or Muslims (in Germany)--who wanted more political power, could then just have a lot of children, something that they always preach is great anyway. This is possibly the most stupid idea the world has seen since the leather gun.
