I was 12 when I had a political epiphany, too (and without any “help” from grown-ups). I realized that my school and most public schools weren’t interested in teaching children critical thinking, but making them mind-numbed leftist Democrat automatons. Think they would’ve given that 12-year old political activist a platform to expose that ?
Lowering the voting age to 16 appears to be a common position among liberal kooks in the UK and Canada.
In the movie “North”, in which children gained power over their parents by threating “divorce”, the voting age likely would have been lowered to 9.
Canadian Green Party Leader Elizabeth May (an American by birth) after her defeat for a seat in parliament in 2008 (she won that seat in the next election) stated that she would have won in a landslide if kids 5 and up could vote.