It Would Be Hilarious If This Backfired

I'm sure the usual wags are counting on the youth to be as stupid as the rest of us but if they figure out the reasons why they are too poor to rent an apartment or buy food, they might turn the tide bigly, as they say:

Liberal Party organizers are petitioning the Commons to give high schoolers the vote. The petition’s sponsor Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (Beaches-East York, Ont.) was one of 20 Liberal MPs to support an identical private bill three years ago: “Extending the voting age to 16 would empower a new generation to participate in democracy while still in school.”