People don't suddenly become politically aware at 18. Paying taxes and graduating high school doesn't grant you deep political insight. >The biggest impacts on

People don't suddenly become politically aware at 18. Paying taxes and graduating high school doesn't grant you deep political insight. >The biggest impacts on their lives are from their parents' circumstance or decision making. While yes, their parents generally have the greatest direct control over their material conditions, the assumption that they then can't have any insights into political conditions that surround their parents, and their own, lives is absurd. For example, the gun violence high school walkouts were conducted by plenty of fifteen year olds, whose lives are directly affected by political conditions.