I’ve always found it difficult to understand why the Greens continually want to talk about lowering the voting age.

But they are absolutely committed to giving 16-year-olds the vote.

They’ve got a whole page on their website devoted to it and they introduced a Bill to the Senate to lower the voting age. Monique Ryan of the Teals also decided to get involved and throw her support behind lowering the voting age.

Hilariously, the Greens website begins, and I quote…

‘Right now the future is f#&^ed.’

Well, there you go!

You’ve got to hand it to the Greens. They really know how to communicate with the young people.

Create a sense of impending doom and apply the f-bomb liberally. Much like one of their party room meetings, I imagine.

The Greens then, predictably, go on about how the planet is falling apart and how this is a great cause of anxiety, and how one of the biggest problems in Australia is the difficulty making a mental health appointment.

That’s telling, isn’t it?

The Greens appear to believe the number one thing young people who vote for them need is a mental health appointment.

So, like I said, I’ve been trying to work out why the Greens believe emotionally fragile young people should get to vote. And then, over the summer, it all made sense.

Revelations that voters pay more attention to Taylor Swift than to party policies when casting their ballot suddenly made sense of the Greens’ strategy.

If the right to vote is restricted to those old enough, and sensible enough, to pay attention to policy, then the Greens are plainly unelectable.

No one in their right mind would agree to the socialist, anti-growth policies of the Greens.

But what if a group of people could be found who were less concerned with sensible ideas and important details than with cute cliches set to catchy tunes?

What if a group of people with zero life experience and an absolute commitment to living in the moment could be found?

What if a group of people who have only ever known a world in which other people support them, and whose greatest concern is figuring out if the thing between their legs means they are male or female would be given the right to vote?

Wouldn’t those kinds of people make perfect Greens supporters?

The Greens cannot convince thinking people to support them so they are desperate to extend voting rights to people who will feel rather than think.

Just as, in America, Joe Biden is committed to flooding the country with illegal immigrants in order to shore up his vote, the Australian Greens are desperate to flood the ballot boxes with teenagers to help them move beyond the 10 per cent primary vote that they have been stuck on since forever.

Because if teenagers are unable to vote for them, to quote the Greens’ website, well, their electoral ‘future is f$$#!ed’.

If anything, the voting age should be raised.

Keep Taylor Swift fans out of politics, and keep the Greens out of government!