Jack Rollins

Menials are being reported as the most apathetic generation of Americans in history. Many of us still live at home, have bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology or English, yet are barely able to subsist from a meager coffee shop salary.

This election season many of you may be considering abstaining from voting. After all, why bother? The Bern has fizzled out, Clinton’s a liar, and the other option is a handsy groping ape. So why waste your breath and your vote choosing between the lesser of two evils? The things shot before it’s even begun.

It’s understandable, and as Americans we are all entitled to do what we want with our vote. The wonderful thing about this country is that you have the freedom to do what you wish so long as you don’t harm someone else. But instead of seeing the frustration as defeatism, see it as empowerment.

Your apathy, your unwillingness to do anything is so incredibly powerful that it has the ability to sway elections, influence societal trends, and affect the lives of people you’ve never even met. To choose nothing, is still a choice to do something.

If we can change the world by simply doing nothing, than imagine the power that our actions could have if we act with intention.

By stepping forward to act you are taking control of your own world, as well as the world as a whole. If our actions can make someone’s quality of life better simply be not being passive, than we owe it to ourselves and society to do so.

We may be the most apathetic generation, but there are more of us now than any other generation before us. Perhaps then it is not so far fetched to believe that our vote can indeed make a difference, and by acting with intention we can change the system that we now feel excludes us.