Canadian leftists want to lower the voting age to 8 (no, that's not a typo)

[Swordsmyth]

https://twitter.com/DavidSuzukiFDN/s...74334835499008

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/...b01d7b5293a8d9

David Suzuki Foundation Launches Satirical Push To Drop Voting Age To 8

A Vancouver-based environmental charity is making a satirical push to lower the voting age to eight to underscore the importance of protecting future generations from the effects of climate change.

The David Suzuki Foundation launched the campaign Monday, dubbed “18 to 8,” with a website calling for voters to listen to young voices and “prioritize a livable climate over all other issues” in this fall’s election.

“When you get into the voting booth on October 21, vote with your inner child,” the site reads.

The group has also released a video that, while humorous, shows kids taking to the streets to protest against their extinction. The clip opens with two girls playing patty-cake, asking how many years they “have left.”

“Climate scientists are saying we now have only 12 years left to act if we want to avoid catastrophic damage,” a boy says in the ad, referencing a 2018 report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calling for dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The video also features cameos from several Canadian celebrities, including singers Chantal Kreviazuk, Serena Ryder, and Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy, saying it’s time to “let the kids vote.”

The David Suzuki Foundation said in a release that while the group does not actually want children to vote, they believe adults should vote with the best interests of young people in mind.

“By suggesting eight-year-olds would vote with more wisdom than adults when it comes to prioritizing climate change, we are trying to playfully show that many adults simply are not giving climate change the attention it demands right now,” the foundation’s CEO, Stephen Cornish, said in the release.

The group is also asking Canadians to sign a voter pledge demanding that, among other things, the next government ensures “a livable planet for our children” and implements a climate plan to meet Canada’s international commitments.

Under the Paris climate accord, Canada committed to a 30 per cent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. Despite the pledge to reduce emissions, the government isn’t doing enough to combat climate change, according to the former environmental commissioner.

[Swordsmyth]

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/...b01d7b5293a8d9

Many insane ideas are first introduced as "jokes" in order to acclimatize people.
The left is quite seriously pushing to lower the age to 16 right now.
We have a member here who suggested the idea of allowing 12 year olds to vote in all seriousness.
If they get any traction at all (or maybe even if they don't) they will make it serious.

[Dr.3D]

Most leftists probably vote like an 8 year old anyway.

[Occam's Banana]

Apparently, HuffPo writers & editors don't know what "satirical" means.

What is being satirized?

David Suzuki Foundation Launches Satirical Fake and Smarmy "It's for the Children" Push to Drop Voting Age to 8

Fixed it for them.

Although I'm not clear on how that's supposed to be an improvement over it not being fake ...

[Suzanimal]

When I was 8, I had better things to do than vote.

[TheTexan]

I do think younger voters should be given an option to pursue a voting license. They would need to prove to the state however that they know how to vote correctly, via exam.

[TheTexan]

When I was 8, I had better things to do than vote.

Better things to do, than vote?

-rep

[Swordsmyth]

Most leftists probably vote like an 8 year old anyway.

Exactly.

[GunnyFreedom]

Basically, children are easier to fool trick and brainwash.

[Brian4Liberty]

On page 75 of their 1990 publication entitled The First Global Revolution, the organization outlined how they would manufacture ecological scares in order to manipulate the public into accepting the imposition of a dictatorial world government run by them.
“In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. All these dangers are caused by human intervention… The real enemy, then, is humanity itself,” states the report, which can be read in full at the end of this article.

https://www.infowars.com/group-that-...hes-same-hoax/

[Dr.3D]

I do think younger voters should be given an option to pursue a voting license. They would need to prove to the state however that they know how to vote correctly, via exam.

And of course, pay the requisite fee.

[Occam's Banana]

As if adults weren't already ignorant and indoctrinated enough as it is, now they should vote as if they were children.

Talk about the "nanny state" ...

[GunnyFreedom]

As if adults weren't already ignorant and indoctrinated enough as it is, now they should vote as if they were children.

Talk about the "nanny state" ...

They probably see Trump in the US, Boris Johnson in the UK, and the near success of Marine Le Pen in France and figured the adults are starting to reject their indoctrination.

[Suzanimal]

Better things to do, than vote?

-rep

- - rep for being a loser kid with nothing better to do.

Basically, children are easier to fool trick and brainwash.

No way you could've tricked me into willing going to school (that was our polling place) and wasting perfectly good playtime voting.

[GunnyFreedom]

- - rep for being a loser kid with nothing better to do.



No way you could've tricked me into willing going to school (that was our polling place) and wasting perfectly good playtime voting.

My last opponent illegally gave sweet potatoes to anyone who said they’d vote for her. Perhaps if they gave out boxes of Franzia “candy” to 8 year old voters it would bring the kiddies to the polls.

[Anti Globalist]

Yes because 8 year olds are up to date with politics and understand the concept behind them.

[Zippyjuan]

Yes because 8 year olds are up to date with politics and understand the concept behind them.

Most grown-ups aren't.

[Suzanimal]

My last opponent illegally gave sweet potatoes to anyone who said they’d vote for her. Perhaps if they gave out boxes of Franzia “candy” to 8 year old voters it would bring the kiddies to the polls.

1. Who the $#@! would sell their vote for an illegal sweet tater?

2. I wouldn't have taken candy. If I wanted candy, I'd just sneak up to the grocery store and sit under the Brach's display until the manager called my dad to come and get me. I really liked the vanilla chews.

[GunnyFreedom]

1. Who the $#@! would sell their vote for an illegal sweet tater?

the same sort of people who voted for Renee Ellmers because she campaigned on being a tea party Constitutionalist.

2. I wouldn't have taken candy. If I wanted candy, I'd just sneak up to the grocery store and sit under the Brach's display until the manager called my dad to come and get me. I really liked the vanilla chews.

I am sure something could have bribed 8 year old you into showing up. All they’d really have had to do was give your parents like $1000 tax rebate if you voted and they would surely have found a way to bribe you into it.

[Swordsmyth]

Most grown-ups aren't.

ZERO 8 year olds are.

[Zippyjuan]

ZERO 8 year olds are.

You do realize the story was fake, right?

[Swordsmyth]

You do realize the story was fake, right?

I already told you it is part of pre-conditioning the public, they will use it to make 16 look more reasonable and eventually they will go for 8.

[Suzanimal]

the same sort of people who voted for Renee Ellmers because she campaigned on being a tea party Constitutionalist.



I am sure something could have bribed 8 year old you into showing up. All they’d really have had to do was give your parents like $1000 tax rebate if you voted and they would surely have found a way to bribe you into it.

A new bike or a Barbie Dream House but not Franzia candy.

My mother would’ve sold me to them for 1000.00 at that age. I was a frickin terror.