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I hope this kind of thing illustrates the absurdity of democracy in general. For a company to have influence, it needs to accumulate money, which means it needs to make customers happy or convince investors that it can do so.

For a voter to have influence, they have to survive for eighteen years and then find their way to a polling place.

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This is a straw man, since the federal gov't is a republic rather than a strict democracy.

And what would you propose as alternative to permitting everyone living in this country long enough to reach adulthood to cast their their own vote?

Without the ability to have a robust, open political debate voting is meaningless as no voter would have context for their vote (unless they happened to personally know both candidates).

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