This was a hot-button issue all through my childhood, then somehow I lost interest once I actually gained the right to vote. ;-) I think that's the main reason why there's less pressure to fix this. Unlike with other oppressed groups, children eventually grow out of it, with no effort required on their own part. There isn't time for hopelessness and resentment to bubble over into an actual movement for change, because the people mostly likely to lead such a movement (teenagers aged 14-18) will be able to vote in 4 years anyway.
But it's worth remembering that this is not fair, it's not just, and it's ultimately bad for American democracy. Do you think our public school system would be in such a shitty state if children could vote? How about the national debt, which is a transfer of wealth from current generations to future generations? Maybe we would've fixed social security had the generation most likely to get screwed by it actually had voting power?
Seniors often have mental capacities that are not much better than children (Florida 2000, anyone?), yet the AARP is a massive political force, and seniors turn out to vote in disproportionate numbers. It's pretty lopsided that children do not and cannot have such representation.
One should be careful when making arguments like "do you think x current problem would happen if y happened?". There are a lot more in play than just voting rights when it comes to country-scale issues like national debt.
Like I wrote in one the last comments in the blog, you should instead consider: given that all systems have good and bad points (and loopholes, etc), which would you prefer, the current one or the system where children can vote? At the end of the day, it's a highly subjective choice, and given that this is a binary choice, the worst case scenario is that we get the second best option.
But it's worth remembering that this is not fair, it's not just, and it's ultimately bad for American democracy. Do you think our public school system would be in such a shitty state if children could vote? How about the national debt, which is a transfer of wealth from current generations to future generations? Maybe we would've fixed social security had the generation most likely to get screwed by it actually had voting power?
Seniors often have mental capacities that are not much better than children (Florida 2000, anyone?), yet the AARP is a massive political force, and seniors turn out to vote in disproportionate numbers. It's pretty lopsided that children do not and cannot have such representation.