Words.
"Attention young people. The good news is you can finally get some political power this year. The bad news is you're going to have to do something really, really boring on Tuesday. You're going to have to pretend to care about who is on your Soil and Water Conservation Board. You are going to have to vote in an off-off-year election.
Follow me here: If you feel like your government has been ignoring you, you're right. You do something dramatic like Occupy Wall Street, which poll after poll has shown Americans basically agree with, and you get more attention from the police than from politicians. The Tea Party has an entire caucus in Congress, while you have an extremely convincing tumblr. Ever wonder why?
It's because the Tea Party hardcore voted. They voted in primaries. They targeted comfortable, well-liked politicians and cost them their jobs. They showed up and got their stickers. And they'll do it again. They are feared. And if you want a government that fears YOU, you're going to have to go to the local middle school library and get your name crossed off the list. And you're going to have to do it now, so your numbers register for next year's campaign, when it matters.
...Men in suits have been pandering to our demographic for years, only they've been doing it by making sexy action reboots of David the Gnome. Let's have a sexy action reboot of representative democracy this time."
THE WASHINGTON POST: Time for young people to vote
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