I think it’s possible that a lot of people don’t fundamentally understand what voting does. They see it as more of sports team color than the actual underlying policies being driven by political campaigns.

A decent number of young people around me think (or thought) that voting doesn’t matter, that the only way to accomplish anything is through violent, disobedient protests.

But those don’t fund infrastructure plans to rebuild schools and give schools bigger budgets. Those don’t help people get the subsidized vaccines every child needs to be healthy. It doesn’t help establish an impartial body for drawing voting maps. It doesn’t help establish rights and minimums for the bottom 35% of families in the US. It doesn’t decide public foreign policy or local bus and rail routes.

Voting does.

It’s a message our young people need. Voting, and the due diligence and research you need to do to make an informed vote, usually takes less than one hour if you look at all their campaign issues, education, and political depth (did they work for a government before, what positions were they in, what were their accomplishments, etc.).