Where Are All The Young Voters Summary

One issue that has been a major topic of discussion recently is voting for upcoming elections. I read an article recently by Catherine Rampell called “ Where are all the Young Voters?” where she discusses how millennials are the group least likely to vote. She also states that all generations seem to be voting less but the amount of millennials voting seems to be in a severe decline. Rampell goes on to explain that millennials not wanting to vote does not seem to fit their status as being “socially conscious”. In other words, for a generation that seems to be so involved and aware of what is going on in the world around them, it is strange that a majority of the millennial generation is not voting. Later in the article, she discusses what she believes to be the various reasons many millennials are not casting their vote. Some of the reasons Rampell discusses in great

The millennial generation wants to be the ones who cause major change and make their mark in the history books. Many millennials see today`s issues, and instead of ignoring them, are choosing to tackle them head on. Since some millennials are working hard to make changes for the better, they expect the same from their elected leaders. But many politicians promise changes that never happen. This causes some millennials to lose faith in the system. Once the millennials see the political system as ineffective, why would they want to participate in it? Millennials do not want to put their time and effort into a system that they believe is useless and broken. However, the political system is not the only system that some millennials have lost faith in. In her article, Catherine Rampell states “Then, when they inevitably became disillusioned by hopeless and changeless Washington, disgusted millennials checked out of America’s political