The Importance of Voting By Sarah Bargfrede
It’s Election Season! And we all know what that means; hundreds of unachievable campaign promises, commercials filled with political rhetoric and borderline idiotic slogans (I mean, nothing against the candidates but who did these people pay to come up with “Feel the Bern” or “I Like Mike”?), awkwardly intense family gatherings, and shields of childish insults and slander to protect candidates from having to truly answer America’s questions. With all the fanfare and political turmoil filling the elections and staining our ballots, it isn’t difficult to understand the lack of American voters. It’s been so hard to entice our people to vote that only 55% of eligible voters cast a vote in the 2016 election, a number that dwindles to only 40% in the midterm election. And unfortunately, those embarrassing numbers are on the downturn. (Be prepared, this blog post is basically that Levi's commercial in print... except without the inspirational music in the background... sorry). ...