It's nearing the end of 2015, and we are now a little over a year away from the next election. The deficit is still quite large, unemployment exists throughout the country, police brutality is being reported on more than ever, tensions are rising everywhere, and maybe 40% of us will vote this election. That's actually a little generous, seeing as our voter turnout has been on a downward trend ever since 2010. In fact, give it a look for yourself, we kind of suck at this. Whatever your political views may be, they're underrepresented.

Maybe we never learned how to vote, maybe we never had anyone explain the importance to us, maybe we were bred into apathy and we're at a point where we just don't give a damn. I mean, Canada probably has a great immigration policy, tickets to the UK are going to be around $69 with Norwegian Air's new deal coming out, so if things get really bad, we can brood and be angry about it from a distance.

But it's a little strange, isn't it? We all acknowledge that something is terribly wrong in our country, but in the next breath, we emphatically do not give a damn.

"Obama is destroying the country," from one side and, "Republicans literally want to enslave poor people and make the south rise again," from another. But both in unison are saying, "We can't do anything, woe is our once great country, if (insert political candidates name here) wins then I'm leaving forever."

Maybe we're too new to the game and these things will work themselves out, or maybe our rampant cynical apathy is actually the problem. We hate the way things are going, but we're too beaten down and lazy to try and change. We've heard the greatest lie of all:

"The government is f****d, and the common folk can't change anything."

There are two major responses to this: revolting riots or brooding nights watching Netflix movies about dystopian societies while counting down the days before our society meets the same fate. But with the abysmal voter turnout of roughly 15% for the 18-29 demographic, do we have a right to complain?

I'm not advocating any sort of political agenda other than this: We need to vote and we need to actually make our voices be heard. If 100% of us turned out for an election multiple years in a row, this country would flip on its head--practically over night. There's money in the common people and since this country runs on money, it's time to make our voices and wallets heard. So get up, turn off Netflix, get registered, and start researching things that matter instead of wasting your life looking at cat pictures. There's a battle to be fought, and this cynical, apathetic attitude is not going to cut it.