Democracy is at least partially a social "technology" for avoiding civil wars. You have to let the "wrong" people win elections occasionally. If they ever become convinced that winning elections is impossible then they'll fall back to violence to get their way.

This is a general observation about human societies, not a dig at any specific US political faction.

just like driver’s license there should be an age limit to voting rights. few question why you have to be 18 to vote. why 18? today’s 14-year olds are on average infinitely more mature than 14 year olds in say 1950. if someone was to say you are voter when you start high school half of this country would go batshit crazy. a different half would bark if we put an upper limit on voting rights but both make sense. take brexit for example - this was a decision that affect the FUTURE of UK. why would anyone sane say “lets have bunch of 80 year olds who are one foot in the grave make this decision for the people that will have to spend their entire lives with the consequences of that decision…” it is same for any election, elections matter and elections have consequences and old people shouldn’t be involved in making these decisions :)

People should be able to have a childhood free from the hostile information environment of the politicised world. I'm all for youth enfranchisement, but we need to ensure it doesn't come at the expense of childhood.

That said, kids not having a say in things that directly affect them… I can't think of any arguments against kids getting to vote on "think of the children" measures.

We didn’t miss that.