I'm talking about a revolution.
Not the kind that gets you tear-gassed in the streets of Hong Kong tortured in a Syrian prison or guillotined in the Place de la Concorde All we have to do for this revolution is show up to vote, first in our primaries and then November 3
All of us
Easiest Revolution Ever
This surge at the polls would indeed be a revolution because it's a given that so many won't show up on Election Day
Estimates vary, but data from the US Census Bureau and research from the Sentencing Project indicate that 60 4 milion eligible Americans haven't bothered to register to vote. That's a huge number of citizens sitting on the sidelines That's almost the same number of people who voted for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election
Are you one of those nonvoters? Then the pollsters and media pundits have already counted you out
You're not part of their polling because they only count registered or likely voters You're not part of their electoral calculus You're not part of their plans And you're sure not a part of their budget
That's because they're certain you're not going to vote. So they look right past you You don't matter if you don't vote you're invisible But what if our voting habits changed overnight? What if those 60 million adults who've been sitting out showed up November 3?
Wait, you say Voting is pointless. Politicians do what they want, you argue Democracy is broken, you shrug. Well, it's only broken in the way that your dust-collecting exercise bike or rewing machine doesur work It doesn't work because you're not using it
When huge swaths of the American people don't vote, we cede outsized power to the people who actually do vote
If we as an entire nation vote, things in Washington (and in our state and local governments) will be transformed. Here's how
-The candidate a true majority of us decide is the best will win
-The power of special interests will diminish as their funding can no longer work to motivate a small group of voters with outsized power
Policies that the majority of Americans say they want will finally start to happen.
best part of this revolution is that it's easy for each of us to pull our weight. The only thing each of us needs to do is to check a box. If we each go vote, and bring a few others with us to vote we will all wi
The If we all register, and the number of registered voters starts to swell meaningfully over the next several weeks and months, change will start to happen even before our elections Candidates will notice and the narratives will begin to change I guarantee it
This is how we can ensure we have the power to choose whom we want to be as a nation. This is how we can remove the anxiety and fear for our futures. This is how we can determine the direction of the country we love for decades to come
This is how we win the easiest revolution ever
What is the author's purpose for writing this article? What is the author's point of view on voting? Make your answer short and simple and write it on an 8th grade vocabulary level
Explain your answer in 2-3 sentences.