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Let’s Hear About Covid Measures From the Kids…If We Dare
How do kids feel entering year three of pandemic mitigation measures and are we ready for the heartbreaking answers?
They can’t vote; some of them can’t even read or write their names. “Disenfranchised,” doesn’t even begin to describe them.
Most of them don’t have proper I.D. and couldn’t get one even if they could make their way to the local DMV to apply for a state issued one- which they can’t because they probably can’t drive or even navigate public transportation.
They can’t apply for or receive a mail-in ballot, provisional ballot, or any other type of ballot.
They can’t enter into legally binding contracts, can’t sit for public office. Some of them can’t even order a pizza without a great deal of help and most of them can’t pay for it.
They contribute very little to the GDP. They are inexperienced, often impulsive; completely dependent on others. They have almost no real power in society; they are its most vulnerable members.
Yet, they are courted by marketers, controlling as they do a massive amount of buying power. They are disenfranchised today; tomorrow is a different story. Whatever the present may hold for each of them, they are the controlling-share stock holders of the future; they are trust fund babies who…