I am really worried about this generation and politics, i say this because we had voters registration last week and like 3/4 of the entire student population refused to register. Okay i get that politics is scary and you're only in high school but COME ON. Can you imagine what the presidential election will be like if this trend continues? Voting is important if you don't want a dictator.
It seems more and more people are also separating themselves from society into video games and other fantasies (MLP,FNAF) and this isn't good. I was watching a live stream of Minecraft and he said "i didn't vote because politics doesn't matter" i cringed then i turned off the stream. Without politics you wouldn't be able to live stream
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I disagree with you on a fundamental level for a few reasons, and feel free to prove me wrong if I am.
Voting is considered a right, but in being classified as such, isn't a responsibility. Thinking of it as such is rather silly. Whether to vote/for whom the vote shall be cast is in the end determined by the individual, as it is not required of them to vote in the first place, though the option is there should they so choose.
I also disagree with you in your implication that there's an inverse correlation between voter turnout and the chances of an absolute dictatorship. Personally I'd be more afraid of the "bread and circus" trend I've noticed. The bread and circus is a dangerous trend, as it effectively prevents a large portion of the population from caring about politics, as long as the handouts keep coming in.
Perhaps an even bigger fear that I hold is the sheer lack of information displayed by voters from many walks of life. It doesn't matter if one is old or young, black, white, red, Protestant, anything really. What matters in the end is the level of information voters have on the candidates and their platforms as well as the pre-existing machine they're slotting into. If voting is a right, think of keeping informed as a prerequisite to exercising that right, that in my opinion, should be in place. Just as if one wishes to exercise their second amendment right to bear arms, firearm safety courses, background checks, and permit applications are due. But with voting and the second amendment, they're rights and not duties, and being afraid of people not exercising them is pretty silly. It's more sensible to be afraid of people abusing these rights, at least in my own thinking.
