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Kamala Harris: I think we should reduce the voting age to 16. I’ll tell you why. Gen Z — their age is about 13 through 27. They’ve only known the climate crisis. They missed substantial parts of their education because of the pandemic. If they’re in high school or college, especially in college, it is very likely that whatever they’ve chosen as their major for study may not result in an affordable wage. They’ve coined the term “climate anxiety” to describe fear — not only of being unable to buy a home, but fear that it’ll be wiped out by extreme weather, and fear of having children. It is expected that Gen Z will have 10–12 jobs in their lifetime. They are a larger number than Boomers. They’re a specific generation of people who are going to impact our nation and the world. I think we must invest in them, but I think they are rightly impatient with a lot of what is the tradition of leadership right now. If they were able to vote — because they know everything that’s happening right now is going to impact them more than anybody older than them, for the most part — in terms of how these systems work. If they’re voting right now, at 16 and up, they’re going to be talking about the importance of climate. They’re going to be talking about the importance of figuring out how AI is going to affect the future of the workforce. They’re going to be focused on what we are really doing about affordable housing. Basically, in politics, here’s the hard truth about this: there are two centers of power that tend to influence how politicians think — groups that vote the most, and people who write the most checks. To go every day with the people, the people, and think about how do we strengthen people actually going to the polls and voting.
