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It's false that children exist and are people? Barb is one person, Jane and her three kids are four persons. You are effectively saying that children don't matter by removing their right to vote.
Barb only has a direct interest in the short term (her remaining lifespan) and we've already seen many political policies designed only to benefit older people voted in despite them being harmful to the youth. This is exactly the same problem we see with companies pushing hard for quarterly profits but fucking their long term profitability, just on a slightly longer timescale.
As for your assertation that anything big has to wait until the child is old enough to consent? That is not how it works at all.
Parents give consent to conduct extreme medical interventions all the time, from Chemo to Amputation, they can also consent on behalf of their child for other unnecessary bodily interventions like Circumcision, Tattoos, and Piercings. Parent's take legal action on behalf of their children for all sorts of matters. Parents even get to just pack them up and move them to a different country if they want to.
Proxy voting doesn't work at scale? Yes it does. Proxy voting is literally how the US government operates. You vote for a local politician, who then votes on bills on your behalf. This is not a direct democracy, it's a republic which is a form of proxy at a massive scale.
Is there something wrong with higher birth rates? Are people not allowed to choose to have children? Are those children not citizens?
None of your arguments explain why Children shouldn't get a vote.
Oh look, here come the straw men and false equivalencies. So we're done here. You can't seem to defend this with anything solid.
Straw men?
You're the one dodging everything. You won't even admit children are people.