Inspirational Youth
Mar 6th, 2008 by April
The other night I went to my very first caucus. It turned out to entail more than I expected, as last minute voters prevented us from starting for about 45 minutes. I practically live on the local college campus, and so last night I found myself surrounded by hundreds upon hundreds of college kids, standing in line without complaining, just to make an impact on their nation. They wore t-shirts and stickers, they chanted, they held passionate discourse. I have never really seen anything like it.
It reminded me of my studies on the college student protests of the 1960s. It is an inspiring thing to see young people, who are generally pegged as consumed by MySpace and music, rallying for something they really believe in.