https://theloop.ecpr.eu/human-flourishing-agency-as-the-purpose-of-democracy/
Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley's question: "why don’t we see young people as citizens in their own right?" seems to be on more and more minds. Academics, practitioners - sometimes they are both - are adding weight to the longstanding argument for young peoples' (including children's) enfranchisement.
I have not read a convincing argument about why young people should not be enfranchised. As John Wall recently wrote: the onus should not be on young peoples and their allies to demonstrate why they should gain the vote but rather that onus should fall on the shoulders of the people who do not want to enfranchise them.
Both so very much evidence and ethics side with young peoples enfranchisement. Is this "the" suffragist movement of our times?
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/human-flourishing-agency-as-the-purpose-of-democracy/
"why don’t we see young people as citizens in their own right?"
I do not think that that is always the case As psychologist, i see young people, and even children, as citizens in their own rights. And I am not alone regarding your question. Even so, the current world still is mainly an adult oriented-one because the so called "homunculus theory" (i.e., children are but adults in miniature) still pervades many countries across the world.
Let's listen to other voices.
Prior to the November 1960 American presidential election I, along with some of my family, watched the Kennedy vs. Nixon debate on TV. I was age 7 years and 9 months. The next morning I heard on the radio news that Kennedy had been judged to have won the debate. I asked my adult family members, "Is he the good looking one?" I was cheering for him based solely on appearance.
Define 'young people'. While lots of 'adults' of voting age are currently influenced by a candidate's appearance alone, do you want to give the vote to children who are certain not to understand issues?
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