We can do more than one thing. We should constantly be reassessing voting to make it easier and safer as new technologies and processes develop (seriously, why are we not doing mail-in everywhere?). It will be hard to implement effective changes without significant political capital. So in addition, we don’t have a choice but to be shouting from the roof tops that’s it’s partially our fault it got this bad, and it’s our responsibility to fix it.
I talk a lot of politics (I’m very popular at parties /s), and easily the most common response is along the lines of “I don’t vote, what’s the point?” or just pure ignorance of anything beyond some headlines and a casual disregard for civic duty. We have majorly slipped, and people by and large have entirely taken society and it’s framework for granted. I genuinely think people need a kick in the ass from fellow citizens to focus up and not pretend apathy isn’t part of the problem. There’s no chance we fix anything without motivating a huge block of the population that just doesn’t prioritize these things for a multitude of reasons.
Obviously, this also means those of us that don’t have a difficult time voting should be volunteering where possible and donating to like-minded causes when that’s not an option. We should be having frank political discussions and not straying away from calling out absurdities. It’s not fun, there’s no glory therein, it just needs to be done. Nations don’t endure on belief alone.
We can do more than one thing. We should constantly be reassessing voting to make it easier and safer as new technologies and processes develop (seriously, why are we not doing mail-in everywhere?). It will be hard to implement effective changes without significant political capital. So in addition, we don’t have a choice but to be shouting from the roof tops that’s it’s partially our fault it got this bad, and it’s our responsibility to fix it.
I talk a lot of politics (I’m very popular at parties /s), and easily the most common response is along the lines of “I don’t vote, what’s the point?” or just pure ignorance of anything beyond some headlines and a casual disregard for civic duty. We have majorly slipped, and people by and large have entirely taken society and it’s framework for granted. I genuinely think people need a kick in the ass from fellow citizens to focus up and not pretend apathy isn’t part of the problem. There’s no chance we fix anything without motivating a huge block of the population that just doesn’t prioritize these things for a multitude of reasons.
Obviously, this also means those of us that don’t have a difficult time voting should be volunteering where possible and donating to like-minded causes when that’s not an option. We should be having frank political discussions and not straying away from calling out absurdities. It’s not fun, there’s no glory therein, it just needs to be done. Nations don’t endure on belief alone.