Tagged: Apathetic Youth
Rhiannon Pabich
Don’t
By Rhiannon Pabich
Fall 2012
‘Sup, apathetic youth of America! I totally get where you’re coming from, don’t worry. I think you’re right; you shouldn’t vote.
For starters, your vote doesn’t count, right? Some electoral districts in battleground states don’t sometimes decide winners by a 5-vote margin. And the stakes are hardly high; it’s not like it really matters who wins. All politicians are the same, right? Whether it’s Obama or Romney that wins this election, four years from now everyone’s going to be in the same position—women, minorities, people who aren’t heteronormative, students, the elderly, small business owners, teachers, veterans, whomever—so why make the effort to cast a ballot?
