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, 2011). Instead, they just avoid voting altogether, because they feel as though their vote will not matter. To increase the national level of participation and interest when it comes up to politics and public policy, changes will have to be made to the existing system that will get people excited about politics again. If they do not feel they can really make a difference and help changes things for the better, what incentive do they have to do anything related to politics? If the public policies will not be changed to help those who are really struggling, what reason is there to get involved and expend that energy that could be used for something else? People built this county, but many feel it has been taken over by a select few. Unless they see a real way to get it back, they are not going to put in the effort.
As for me, I would only become more active in politics and the creation of public policy if I saw a place where I could really make a difference. As it stands, my one vote or one voice is not going to matter at all. Unless I become very rich or highly influential,...
Still, if a politician gets elected and he or she starts making changes that are significant to me, I would be more interested in what that politician is doing. That could draw me back into politics and public policy, because I would see that I would be able to be part of changes that I believed in. Right now, it is hard for me to believe in anything that politicians are doing or saying, because there have been so many empty and unfulfilled promises over the years. Since there have not been any "good" politicians who have done all they have said they would do in the recent past, I would need to find a politician I could really believe in before I would have any desire to get into politics or the creation of public policy.
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Schmidt, Barbara a.; Bardes, Mack C.; Shelley, Steffen W. (2011). American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials (2011 -- 2012 Student ed.). Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
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