I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I thought the article below would reignite the organizer and activist inside of you after a much needed break. The article below is about how civic illiteracy has turned young people off to the democratic process and it mentions a lot of the common cynical beliefs young people have about America's political system, while at the same time reminded readers that young people have consistently been on the "front lines of revolution", as I like to say. One thing that inspires me about the clean elections movement, and the pro-democracy movement at large, is that it adheres to the belief of the founding framers that our democracy is always and will always need to be defended, reformed, and changed in order to protect the ideals that is promises. In other words, all citizens, especially young people, must always be engaged in ensuring that equality, fairness, and justice are the key elements of our democracy and that the political system allows those principles to be actualized.
Enjoy and spread to your members.
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