Vote

The article I read about was called “How millennials could kill politics as we know it if they cared to” by Hunter Schwarz. This article is about how powerful millennials could be during elections if they took the time and proceeded the action to vote. Millennials are defined as individuals that are born between 1981-1996, they make up 22% of the United States population. Millennials could be a dominating fraction within the election but the majority of millennials choose to not participate. In 2016, only a little more than half of the eligible voters from this generation chose to participate in voting. This generation is capable of making permanent decisions towards our country and half of the people choose to not participate at all. People believe that the voters are made up of people that are directly affected over the issues themselves such as student debt, health care, environment, and the economy. People that are directly faced with these problems are more likely to participate and vote for their preference of future leaders. This is because these voters want to impact what they are passionate about and hope that the leaders of their preference get elected.

A big thing that millennials have is the power of social media. The spread of word and influence are carried through the people we follow. You could easily post something on any social media platform and express your views and concerns that are carried to other individuals. Other influencers such as famous people and role models can shape your views and influence tremendously on what you believe. People that look up to them can easily start to believe in the same values as their role model. Growing up with social media can provide you with good and bad information on political topics that are easily accessed on the internet. Social media plays a huge factor towards political views that this generation, and future generations with being nearly impossible to avoid.

Millennials are described as the most independent generation but are the least likely to see the big differences between democrats and republicans. A poll in March found that 44% of people in this generation identify themselves as an independent. When people identify as independent it means that they are neither democrat or republican. The vast majority of the population identify as independent because they agree with a bit of both sides. Some people also say they don’t like the official label as one of the two to follow those expectations in their lifetime. Ultimately, people that identify as independent could for either democrat or republican- it all depends on the candidates running.