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“But advocates say the main reason to expand the vote is non-partisan.”

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FakeNewsMSM, however, will push this idea to the limit.
the youth are being groomed for such an eventuality:

10 Apr: WNPR Public Radio Connecticut: How The New England Aquarium Seeks To Urge Visitors To Act On Climate Change
By Benjamin Swasey. WBUR’s Bob Shaffer contributed reporting.
Meanwhile, inside the New England Aquarium (NEAQ) itself, climate change is a central aspect of the programming. In recent years, the aquarium has increased its focus on climate change education, using research-tested language to speak directly about the issue. And it urges visitors to take up the cause of emissions reductions.

The focus was evident on a recent weekday morning, as children and their parents ringed the top of the NEAQ’s giant ocean tank. They gathered to hear a talk from Lindsay Jordan, a senior visitor education specialist…
“The good news is, we know exactly what’s causing this,” Jordan told visitors. “It’s things and choices we make every single day. Most of the energy that we consume in this country is produced by burning fossil fuels like coal and oil and gas.”
Burning fuels creates carbon dioxide, which creates, she put it, “a blanket that traps our Earth’s heat.” Jordan said it’s a “simple mechanism” with the simple solution of limiting the burning of fossil fuels...

Then Jordan pushed the message more explicitly, encouraging those in attendance to seek out community-wide efforts at fossil fuel reduction and to “use your power as citizens to vote for people and for policies that support renewable energy.”...

The NEAQ’s climate education efforts stretch back about a decade, when it joined with fellow institutions — like zoos and museums — to form a network of informal science educators.

Boosted by millions in federal grant money, the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI) is now working in 170 institutions in 38 states (and developing a more diversified funding model)...

But Spitzer and Jordan point to survey data, from 2010, showing that museums, zoos and aquariums are among the most trusted sources of information about global warming. And Spitzer says about 60 percent of the U.S. population attends museums, zoos and aquariums.
“We look at it and say, ‘Hey, if we can influence 60 percent of the population, that’s pretty darn good,’” he said…

Several mothers at the aquarium with their kids that day said the inclusion of the climate change messaging was a pleasant surprise, but they admitted it’s a second-tier issue for them, as voters and citizens.
http://wnpr.org/post/how-new-england-aquarium-seeks-urge-visitors-act-climate-change