I also think our political climate will react way too late to this because the majority of voters are older than 40.
Which makes me very uneasy, the people that won't have to feel the negative consequences of Brexit are the ones that voted for it.
Same for climate change.
I guess my reflexion will just end up in "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" since I don't see a solution to this.
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I wonder if the appreciation for younger voters extends there too.
I was wondering whether that newfound appreciation for younger voters extends also to cases where they vote in way that is probably not supported by whomever makes that argument - I hear a lot of that from British 'Remain' people, but had French young voters got their way, it would not have mattered however the British voted: there wouldn't have been much of an EU to remain in.
To reply directly to your point: people with more to lose don't get more voting rights than people with with less to lose. Had that been the case, the biggest difference would not be age-based - it would be giving wealthy people the vote while denying it to the poor. I thought that argument was settled.
Also, voters are not individualistic atoms, but have people they care about. It can be argued younger people face less consequences because they have less people to protect.
The point isn't about wealth distribution or whether I like that people vote for Le Pen.