*POTENTIAL SPOILERS*
Over the past few months, I've found myself watching a lot of political TV shows. "House of Cards" was first, then "Veep" and now "West Wing". Half the time, I have no idea what they're talking about. Laws and legislation go way over my head all the time. There's been a lot of googling for episode recaps (especially "House of Cards") because I need to understand in some way.
The reason I began watching "House of Cards" was because after the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States everything kind of felt f'ed up. "House of Cards" is the most f'ed up way to portray politics, in my opinion. But it did produce this:
And then I fell off my lofted bed and didn't speak for 3 hours.
Although I certainly know nothing about politics (established this already) and I know nothing of the goings-on of everyday democracy, I've learned more in the past few months than in my AP government class in high school (sorry Mrs. Chessock). For one thing, I had no idea there were so many people working as advisers to the President. From Chief of Staff to Press Secretary, there's a lot of people who keep the President updated and tell them what to say (I'm saying "them" here, as President Selina Meyer from "Veep" deserves recognition).
As I thought about this, I remembered who the current White House Press Secretary was and laughed. Hard. And then I remembered SNL's sketch from last week about Easter:
And... how this actually happened:
So far, this administration and presidency has got me like me, December 27th, 2015:
While watching Season 1 episode 10 of "West Wing", a topic of hate crimes came up after a boy who was beaten up because he was gay occurred at a school. The group of advisers and the President were unsure what to do about legislation. While this was aired in 1999, attitudes around hate crimes have changed greatly among our population (not saying everyone believes the same thing, because they don't).
This gave me hope, though. This current millennial generation has so much power. It's breathtaking. "Teen Vogue" has become an outlet for young stars (and girls) to have a voice about politics and how they want a say in how this country is run. This is not the end of "snowflake liberal thinking", it's just the start. Sure, there's so many issues in this country that cannot and will not be solved in the next 10-15 years. But we're getting there. Millennials are the next people to change the world and I believe it's going to happen. We are the next politicians, the next CEOs, the next leaders. We can make the change and we can do it.
