It’s fair to say few of us are going into politics.
Yes, we took Civics in eighth grade. Yes, we take government in 12th grade. The students are all in class, but their interest is absent.
Although politics is a large part of our lives, many of us won’t pay attention in class (and many of us will sleep through it at one time or another). Yet we complain about the state of affairs in the United States constantly. The fact of the matter is: we’re part of the problem.
By the time we graduate from WS, most of us will be able to vote, and with the presidential election happening in the fall of 2016, that responsibility will really hit home.
It’s nothing out of the ordinary to hear that politicians have nothing in common with the people they represent.
They’re too rich or too conservative or too liberal for us, but they’re all we have, so we make do.
If we focused on learning about politics on a more in-depth level to create interest instead of arguing with one another about the proper way to pronounce “GIF,” there would be a greater variety of candidates whom we would actually be willing to vote for.
Politics has the potential to be interesting and worthwhile, but with such a bias against the field, few will take the time to get involved.
Looking at the current election polls, Donald Trump and Ben Carson, two “political outsiders,” are the top two Republican candidates, which goes to show that the public wants someone who isn’t labeled a politician, but rather a person who will get things done. A task no one seems to think politicians are capable of doing.
For many of us, we have yet to see otherwise. For a country that is made “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” the people don’t really want to get involved.
Learning more about politics would not only reinforce and reteach America the constitutional ideas that make up the very foundations and principles of the nation we all live in, but it would allow us to finally be able to truly get involved in this country’s government.
Too many cry foul at political actions and list at least three ways it could have gone better because while we grow up learning to problem solve, we can’t bring ourselves to apply the skill when it comes to our country unless it’s in a rant.
Maybe we can finally stop talking about politics without grimacing at the thought because for once, we would have enough people with enough interest to speak up and take action rather than sit back and take it.
If you’re going to decide who’s going to govern the lives of over 300 million citizens, it’s only fair you know what you’re voting for.