Vance wants to give parents more votes than people without children and has been hostile to those without kids as part of his worldview that involves using the power of the government to promote higher birth rates.
J.D. Vance could soon be a heartbeat away from the presidency as 78-year-old Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, which means he’s getting a lot more scrutiny over his views, policy ideas, and past speeches and statements.
One of the most controversial of those statements is Vance’s repudiation of one of the very principles of American democracy: one person, one vote. Put simply, this is the idea of equal representation — that any one person’s voting power should be the same as any other person’s.
Vance, however, believes that people with children should have significantly greater power when they go to the ballot box. During a 2021 speech at an event hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a group that promotes conservative thought on college campuses, Vance proposed giving children the ability to vote, but only if their parents controlled those votes.
“Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children,” Vance said. “When you go to the polls in this country, as a parent, you should have more power, you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic than people who don’t have kids.”
“Let’s face the consequences and the reality. If you don’t have as much as an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice,” he continued.
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