By Selwyn Duke

If they don’t get wisdom from the mouths of babes, that’s okay. Votes are all they really want.

In Argentina, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her ruling
Victory Front coalition have succeeded where certain American leftists
have thus far failed. They have passed a bill allowing 16-year-olds to vote.

The desire to extend suffrage to younger adolescents is nothing new. A
few other nations have made the move, and approximately half of U.S.
states allow 17-year-olds to vote
in primaries and caucuses. And some Americans would take it further.
Executive director of the National Youth Rights Association, Alex
Koroknay-Palicz, wants to grant voting rights
to 16-year-olds; and former California state senator and then
septuagenarian John Vasconcellos' (D-Santa Clara) advanced age didn't
stop him from advancing our decline. Vasconcellos — famous for
advocating the “self-esteem” movement — proposed
in 2004 an idea called “Training Wheels for Citizenship,” which would
have extended limited voting rights to kids as young as 14 (and he
wanted to grant them full rights).

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