The 6th Reform: Universal Suffrage for All
by Brian Ripley, June 1st 2008
As you can see from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage
there is still no real universality when it comes to voting. The biggest
group left out with the most at risk are children.
According to the U.S. Bureau of the
Census:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/HSP/97trends/PF1-2.htm +/- 25% of the
population in the U.S. are under 18 and therefore cannot vote, cannot
effectively inform their government to make changes now that will
benefit them, like: please stop the state sponsorship of murder, rape
and pillage and move the national interest more towards "the greatest
portion of good".
Women get little payoff from
aggression; it does not lead to security for themselves or their
children.
In Canada nearly 18% of the population
is under 15 years of age (2007 Census Estimate)
http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact2007/geos/ca.html#People
In Mexico 30% of the population is
under 15 years of age (2007 Census Estimate)
http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact2007/geos/mx.html#People
These future citizens are barred from
participation in shaping the world they will inherit.
How do we get this vote out?
By proxy, held by the closest female
caregiver.
That's right, a child's vote should
reside with their mother or the closest female caregiver or guardian.
Women bear the future, they should be
entrusted with the vote of the largest ignored class of voters.
Imagine what could happen if we allowed
our living inheritors a say in our affairs.
In the United States for very 100 people, if 25% are
children, and men and women share the remaining votes somewhat
equally, then 37 women would have an additional 25 child votes to
influence the other 38 male votes. That's 62 female vs. 38 male
votes. That ratio would lead to dramatic change.
In Canada, the results would be 59
female vs. 41 male votes, and in Mexico 65 female vs. 35 male votes.
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North America would become a model for
the rest of the world.
The Grameen Bank is a case in point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grameen_Bank
It was first created as a university research project by Muhammad
Yunus in 1976 in Bangladesh as an experiment in micro-banking (small
loans to poor people). By 1983 it was made independent by government
authority and as of 2007, women make up 97% of the clients who
provide a 98% payback of the money borrowed.
Yunus discovered early on that men
could not be trusted to repay the loans; women could. They used the
money for creating businesses that provided income to insure the
raising of standards for their families who in half the cases were
previously living in desperate poverty but now have their children in
schools, three meals a day, clean drinking water, sanitary toilets
and rainproof houses.
It's time to acknowledge our future. Let's have Universal Suffrage, let's count all the votes.
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Canada, U.S. & Mexico's populations all show 49% of
the total being male. |
