Listen, I get it. You don't have to tell me about all the problems we face as a new generation in this country. And I also know who is to blame for most of the those problems. If America was a Blockbuster VHS, we just rented a cracked copy that is missing some film and not rewound. Rising national debt, a polarized and divided populace on virtually every issue, and a president who doesn't know his way around a high school model UN let alone the real one. On top of that the earth is getting warmer, our fossil fuels are getting rarer and rarer, and the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse is more realistic these days than the thought of a Olympics being played with no athletes cheating. I've heard it all, and I'm aware of it all. And I am here to say that we need to shut up about it and get to work.

I know that Millennials get a bad wrap. Older generations look to us to deflect for their own missteps as a society. Greed and corruption that happened on their watch led to a world where businesses and corporations are giving government handouts with almost no uproar, but you can't go three pages deep on Facebook without someone complaining about someone using food stamps to keep from starving. These issues were not created by us, but they need to be solved by us. And sitting here posting memes about how it isn't a problem we created does not accomplish that in the slightest.

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about people who have ran for government to try and change things they believed needed changing. But not everyone needs to run for government to effect change. Everyone of us has no problem tapping out a social media status, but only 32% (or about 24 million) Millennials showed up the polls to vote in 2016. How can we complain about a process that we don't try to change?

The biggest argument that I hear from my peers (and myself even at times) is that they are jaded and burnt out with our country. They feel that no matter what they do, or how they vote, it doesn't matter. But looking at what happened in Alabama this past week, we know that a untied effort can turn a sure thing into anything but.

Going back to 2016, if the Millennial vote was the only one tallied, Donald Trump would have lost in a landslide, and that's only counting the people who showed up at the polls. And that's the most important thing to remember here: One day we will be the loudest voice, but only if we actually shout.

If you sit on your phone, complaining about the world and doing nothing about your complaints congratulations; you have turned into the personified character of what older generations think of Millennials. If we don't fundamentally change the way we approach these problems, we WILL be responsible for what happens next. These problems are not our fault, but our solutions and our remedies are the only thing we have. So let's get to work.