(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Imagine a future where a high school senior not only runs for class president but also mayor of their hometown. It may sound like a far-off dream, but for some teenagers, this is a reality. With Democrats leading the charge, there’s a growing movement to lower the legal voting age in local elections to 16 and possibly in the national elections.
These are the same kids who eat Tide pods and snort cinnamon on TikTok — they may determine the direction of the country if the Left has their way.
One of the leftist organizations behind the movement was Vote16USA, according to BizPac Review.
“We aim to help with the coordination of new and current local campaigns around the country while elevating the issue nationally through traditional and social media,” the group stated on their website.
A study by Exploding Topics found TikTok has a user base of 834 million people, an ideal platform for the Vote16 movement to promote teenage empowerment — the perfect targets to mold into the Left’s agenda.
“The largest proportion (25%) of US TikTok users are 10 to 19 years of age,” according to Exploding Topics. “47.4% of TikTok users are under 30.”
In that light, the White House’s public relations team push for the Chinese-owned TikTok made sense.
“We’re trying to reach young people, but also moms who use different platforms to get information and climate activists and people whose main way of getting information is digital,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, White House deputy chief of staff, told Axios.
The plot thickens as the global elites’ fingerprints are all over the movement. Many of the most notable left-of-center funding organizations in the U.S. including the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bezos Family Foundation and Black Voices for Black Justice were supporting Vote16.
Together they placed wins in states like Vermont, Oregon and Missouri. Teens in Vermont can vote in local elections and run for office, thanks to the success Vote 16 campaign. In Missouri, there was a push to lower the voting age to 16 for local and school board elections. In Oregon, a 15-year-old high school student named Devon Lawson-McCourt convinced a state representative to propose an amendment to the state constitution, granting voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds.
