[Applause]
we need to lower the voting age to 16
and before I get into the nitty-gritty
details of why I’d like to introduce
someone very special
meet third-grade Camille besides being a
Stone Cold Stunner Camille likes puppies
kittens horses aka secret unicorns and
things that are the color yellow and
Camille also has a dream that one day
everyone will cycle and think more about
global warming the first time I heard
the Glo word global warming was in third
grade when our class got a recycling bin
and I didn’t know what it was so using
my resources I discovered it is two
things it is bad and it affects everyone
including puppies kittens horses aka
secret unicorns and even things that are
the color yellow I was very upset so I
decided to ask my teacher what can I do
to help
and how can I stop it she told me you
are too young to be worrying about that
and that is for us adults to deal with
and I remember my reaction because it’s
the same reaction I have when I hear
arguments saying that 16 year old
shouldn’t vote and it’s also the same
reaction I had when I discovered the
scam behind picture day at preschool
because I didn’t understand if something
affects everyone then it affects people
who just popped out of the womb to
people who are 150 years old it doesn’t
matter and if it affects you shouldn’t
you be able to say something about it
fast forward to the school shootings
from Sandy Hook to parkland you know
Vermont is very lucky we haven’t had a
shooting incident because it’s very very
tragic obviously but we’re also told
quite often that we’re a safe state a
more small state Vermont is one of the
30 states with no minimum age
requirement to own a rifle or a shotgun
and one of the 33 states where people 16
and under are allowed to own weapons it
is one of these four states Arizona
Alaska Wyoming and Vermont that 16 year
olds can own a concealed handgun without
a permit 16 year olds can also drive
work pay taxes legal age of consent can
as an organ donor get a passport and
begin the process of emancipating
yourself from your family and yes 16
year olds do you pay taxes and when you
pay taxes as a 16 year old it’s a lot
like walking into a grocery store and
you hand your money to the cashier and
he buys everything for you regardless of
your allergies or your what you like and
don’t like to be honest nobody wants
that and nobody likes prunes so if we
can do all of these things why can’t we
vote because you don’t need a ballot to
play games on your phone and we’re
children and democracy will suffer from
the stupid decisions of us 16 year olds
allowing young people to vote would dumb
down our political discourse and teens
are too stupid to handle politics and
according to the world this is what our
brain looks like now I don’t know about
you but I don’t know anyone who thinks
or the word later with the letter or the
number 8 in it no one does but this
image when I look at it reminds me of
another one that we’ve seen in the past
during the women’s suffrage movement
this was published and then those quotes
remind me of these ones you do not need
a ballot to clean out your sink spout
that were housewives democracy will fall
due to the voice of the black man and
blacks won’t understand the complex
political conversations we will force to
simplify and that women are too delicate
to vote these comments and these
arguments against allowing 16 year-olds
to vote if I were to be nice to them I
would just call them condescending but
the truth is is their lies to stereotype
America’s youth and their fear tactics
to make us not able to vote and we’ve
seen it in the past and they’re not that
creative or original anymore so
everybody thinks sixteen year olds are
stupid but no sixteen year old is going
to vote for Donald Duck in office that’s
not gonna happen
like no one is and we’re not children
if 18 is the age of majority then 16
year olds is only two years younger than
that so we’re young adults and we should
be treated as such if we pay taxes into
a system we should be allowed to say
what happens in that system and
we’re not stupid we care about different
issues we don’t just care about the
games on our phone I know that when I’m
allowed to vote I’m gonna be casting my
first vote to help the generations to
follow after me
thank you
[Applause] [Music]
we need to lower the voting age to 16
and before I get into the nitty-gritty
details of why I’d like to introduce
someone very special
meet third-grade Camille besides being a
Stone Cold Stunner Camille likes puppies
kittens horses aka secret unicorns and
things that are the color yellow and
Camille also has a dream that one day
everyone will cycle and think more about
global warming the first time I heard
the Glo word global warming was in third
grade when our class got a recycling bin
and I didn’t know what it was so using
my resources I discovered it is two
things it is bad and it affects everyone
including puppies kittens horses aka
secret unicorns and even things that are
the color yellow I was very upset so I
decided to ask my teacher what can I do
to help
and how can I stop it she told me you
are too young to be worrying about that
and that is for us adults to deal with
and I remember my reaction because it’s
the same reaction I have when I hear
arguments saying that 16 year old
shouldn’t vote and it’s also the same
reaction I had when I discovered the
scam behind picture day at preschool
because I didn’t understand if something
affects everyone then it affects people
who just popped out of the womb to
people who are 150 years old it doesn’t
matter and if it affects you shouldn’t
you be able to say something about it
fast forward to the school shootings
from Sandy Hook to parkland you know
Vermont is very lucky we haven’t had a
shooting incident because it’s very very
tragic obviously but we’re also told
quite often that we’re a safe state a
more small state Vermont is one of the
30 states with no minimum age
requirement to own a rifle or a shotgun
and one of the 33 states where people 16
and under are allowed to own weapons it
is one of these four states Arizona
Alaska Wyoming and Vermont that 16 year
olds can own a concealed handgun without
a permit 16 year olds can also drive
work pay taxes legal age of consent can
as an organ donor get a passport and
begin the process of emancipating
yourself from your family and yes 16
year olds do you pay taxes and when you
pay taxes as a 16 year old it’s a lot
like walking into a grocery store and
you hand your money to the cashier and
he buys everything for you regardless of
your allergies or your what you like and
don’t like to be honest nobody wants
that and nobody likes prunes so if we
can do all of these things why can’t we
vote because you don’t need a ballot to
play games on your phone and we’re
children and democracy will suffer from
the stupid decisions of us 16 year olds
allowing young people to vote would dumb
down our political discourse and teens
are too stupid to handle politics and
according to the world this is what our
brain looks like now I don’t know about
you but I don’t know anyone who thinks
or the word later with the letter or the
number 8 in it no one does but this
image when I look at it reminds me of
another one that we’ve seen in the past
during the women’s suffrage movement
this was published and then those quotes
remind me of these ones you do not need
a ballot to clean out your sink spout
that were housewives democracy will fall
due to the voice of the black man and
blacks won’t understand the complex
political conversations we will force to
simplify and that women are too delicate
to vote these comments and these
arguments against allowing 16 year-olds
to vote if I were to be nice to them I
would just call them condescending but
the truth is is their lies to stereotype
America’s youth and their fear tactics
to make us not able to vote and we’ve
seen it in the past and they’re not that
creative or original anymore so
everybody thinks sixteen year olds are
stupid but no sixteen year old is going
to vote for Donald Duck in office that’s
not gonna happen
like no one is and we’re not children
if 18 is the age of majority then 16
year olds is only two years younger than
that so we’re young adults and we should
be treated as such if we pay taxes into
a system we should be allowed to say
what happens in that system and
we’re not stupid we care about different
issues we don’t just care about the
games on our phone I know that when I’m
allowed to vote I’m gonna be casting my
first vote to help the generations to
follow after me
thank you
[Applause] [Music]
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