What if I told you that you could change the world?
by Franz Becker (Iowa)
What if I told you that you could change the world?
The teen in politics is something that has evolved over the past years. Teens can now play a huge role in getting candidates elected. Many people say that teens’ voices don’t matter until you can vote, but, on the contrary, you can actually play a much bigger part than any voter. As a teen, all it takes is going down to your parties head quarters and making phone calls or knocking on doors. You can stop complaining about the drinking age and start working to get it changed. You can stop complaining about your teachers, and demand education reform. If you dislike immigrants coming in, you can even make calls and go to Minnesota to knock on doors for Michele Bachmann. As long as you have a voice you can use it to your advantage. Teens have always been pushed around, but that’s just nature. Now, over the phone or in the trenches canvassing, you do matter. Your voice matters. Your issues matter. You can join your town’s High School Democrats of America or your town’s Young Republicans.
As teens, you can’t vote and we can’t change that, but we can change other laws. For example, every teen in the state of Iowa has to pay about $400 for drivers ed. What you can do is write a bill and send it to your state rep. You with your state rep can change that price to $70. You just saved teens across your state possibly $20,000,000.
Being a teen campaigner is more than lobbying laws or getting a single particular thing changed; it’s about getting votes and fighting for the values you believe in whether that’s Democrat or Republican. You can fight for what you believe in and fight hard. In Iowa’s 2012 Republican caucus Rick Santorum won by 34 votes. If you worked hard for a week, or even a day, you have the power to alter history.
People think politics are boring, but the fact of the matter is that they’re not. In politics, you meet the world’s most powerful people and you can even become one. In one summer I personally got to meet, shake hands with, get a picture with, and an autograph from Joe Biden and Barack Obama three times. In life. you can protest laws or you can work hard to change them.
If you want to change the world, if you want to make a difference, or if you just want to have a voice, then politics is for you.
What if I told you that you could change the world?
The teen in politics is something that has evolved over the past years. Teens can now play a huge role in getting candidates elected. Many people say that teens’ voices don’t matter until you can vote, but, on the contrary, you can actually play a much bigger part than any voter. As a teen, all it takes is going down to your parties head quarters and making phone calls or knocking on doors. You can stop complaining about the drinking age and start working to get it changed. You can stop complaining about your teachers, and demand education reform. If you dislike immigrants coming in, you can even make calls and go to Minnesota to knock on doors for Michele Bachmann. As long as you have a voice you can use it to your advantage. Teens have always been pushed around, but that’s just nature. Now, over the phone or in the trenches canvassing, you do matter. Your voice matters. Your issues matter. You can join your town’s High school Democrats of America or your town’s young republicans
.
As teens, you can’t vote and we can’t change that, but we can change other laws. For example, every teen in the state of Iowa has to pay about $400 for drivers ed. What you can do is write a bill and send it to your state rep. You with your state rep can change that price to $70. You just saved teens across your state possibly $20,000,000.
Being a teen campaigner is more than lobbying laws or getting a single particular thing changed; it’s about getting votes and fighting for the values you believe in whether that’s Democrat or Republican. You can fight for what you believe in and fight hard. In Iowa’s 2012 Republican caucus Rick Santorum won by 34 votes. If you worked hard for a week, or even a day, you have the power to alter history.
People think politics are boring, but the fact of the matter is that they’re not. In politics, you meet the world’s most powerful people and you can even become one. In one summer I personally got to meet, shake hands with, get a picture with, and an autograph from Joe Biden and Barack Obama three times. In life. you can protest laws or you can work hard to change them.
If you want to change the world, if you want to make a difference, or if you just want to have a voice, then politics is for you.
