The Introduction -

Every person is a being with the capacity to feel, to think, to act.  We live through experiences that shape how we feel, think, and act.  Life hands us challenges that we encounter and it is up to us what we become on the other side of those challenges.  The thing is we are not alone.  Every person you meet has a challenge and together as a group of people, we have challenges.  It’s easy to point fingers and direct the blame at organizations and especially our government.  It’s even easier to just ignore it and let someone else point the finger.  Nothing’s going to change anyway, right?  What are you supposed to do about it?  It’s not like one person can change the system.  It’s not like we can change the world and make it a better place.  How ridiculous that is, right?

I felt that way at one point.  Then I asked myself one little question.  Is that all?  There’s nothing more I can do?  This is my life and I have no choices?  I realized I cannot accept it.  You don’t have to either.  This is the reason why I am starting this biweekly manifesto, of sorts.

I want individuals of my generation to have their say.  I’m twenty-one years old.  Young, I know.  That’s the point.  I want high school and college kids to share their opinions.  This isn’t just about me sitting on my soap box and preaching my ideas.  My goal is to get you involved, have your say in the democratic process.

Democracy Inaction is an attempt to include “young people” to participate in our said democracy of the United States.  There are three objectives to Democracy Inaction:

1.  To give all an opportunity to speak their mind
2.  To encourage empathy of the feelings and ideas of all
3.  To do something about it

Each article hereafter, will be dedicated to achieving the above three objectives.  Words can give way to action, yet it is action that gives way to change.  If our government is “by the people, for the people,” what are the people doing?  What are you doing?  We need to take our future seriously or it will be decided for us by someone other than “the people”.

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
-Aristotle

Kandice Gauthier is currently an elementary education student at Frostburg State University.  She is also a newlywed settling in to wedded bliss.  “Democracy Inaction” is the result of Kandice’s passion to make a difference in the world and to instigate people of her generation to do so too.

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