“VOTR lets you evaluate each and every candidate for the 36 open U.S. Senate seats, based on everything from education level and military experience to pet ownership and hairstyle.”
1963: I watch the Stars and Stripes flapping in a clear, bright blue desert sky, having just finished reciting the pledge with the rest of my grade school. The principal climbs up on the base of the flagpole (a first) and the whole school goes silent. With tears streaming down her face, she announces that President Kennedy has been shot.
That was the first time I truly felt fear for my country. Since then, I have seen politics devolve into the fiasco of mudslinging, money-laundering, power grubbing partisan electoral college hapless free-for-all it is today. Yes, things are very messed up.
The only way forward I can see is for the generation coming up, my son's generation, to take control. I see them using the internet like a power hose to blast the encrusted filth of politics off our lady, The Statue of Liberty, so that her light and justice can shine again. Before the Universe crushes us like a cockroach.Yes, I'm a very visual person.
Which is why I like this app. It may not be the answer—but if it can pull kids into politics and make them feel they can change things—It's a stab in the right direction.
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