Discussion: Why Vote?
I tend to disagree with the statement that “any American child can grow up to be president of the United States.” In the United States, we are still far from equality, such that there is still a considerable percentage of people who always get some services as privileges, not as rights. Racial, social-economic, and even gender discrimination are still evident in the United States. There are still children who do not have access to good education, and they socially and economically disadvantaged, giving them no chance to compete with other children to become something in society. Therefore, the ideology may exist that every child in the United States could grow up to be president, but the reality is that this is very far from reality. Until the moment when all services are available to every American child equally from whichever location they are from in the United States.
We cannot all fit in the government, and each one of us cannot be in a position of power of influence to impact change in our society. Therefore, we need to get people that we believe in to represent us in those powerful positions, and we can only achieve this by voting