Millennials are often confounded at the world around them, especially as of lately. However, it is paramount that they are not discouraged. As frustrating as it is to watch our country travel back in time, there is hope we will get it back where it belongs and eventually progress forward. That hope is by no means overzealous optimism that will inevitably be crushed. It is fact that the millennials have the power to change the world.
Our generation has surpassed the baby boomers. The largest ever generation is no longer that. What this means is we have the ability to make the largest impact yet. The generations above us have kept us silent. They have made it so schools are no longer about learning, but memorization of materials for standardized tests. Critical thinking is not a part of the curriculum prior to college. Before obtaining a higher education students thoughts and ideas are often kept to themselves, letting them go to waste. Students are unaware of how to use rhetoric to their advantage, which is detrimental to our democracy. Schools are afraid of producing advocates. They would rather tell us what to think and hope we accept the fate the government wishes to lay out for us without question.
Luckily, the millennials are particularly interested in politics, which likely has something to do with the previous election catching the attention of so many of us. Millennials are largely passionate about social justices, and though our current administration threatens the chances of such changes coming about, we are capable of assembling a political reform able initiate the societal differences we seek. That is why it is vital we keep ourselves informed and continue to challenge the ways of the world around us. We must speak up in instances of injustice and work to refine our reality.
Millennials cannot adapt a pessimistic attitude towards the probability of adapting change; our silencers cannot win. As far fetched and ambitious the idea of changing the world may sound, the truth is those opposing are actually outnumbered. Thus, mass change is hardly abstract, but indeed feasible.