Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Chloe Grace Moretz is Proud to Share her Voting Intentions, also Encourages You To Vote

Chloe Grace Moretz has told the world she is proud to be voting for Hillary Clinton as a first time voter.

So why is that significant? Because it adds another voice in the conversation that is politics. A conversation that is important to have for the sake of a healthy democracy, but a conversation many people won't have because they think it's boring. Therefore, who better than a young and popular actress to help kickstart the conversation?

Chloe also highlighted the fact that the vast majority of young adults did not vote in the 2014 mid-term elections, that they could have made a difference but that they did not. This is something I have felt passionately about for a long time. If young people don't enrol or don't vote, we don't get to have a say on the future, as a demographic. This would be ironic, since we are most affected by the future. It is why young people care the most about issues like climate change.

So thank you Chloe. And for the fencesitters, yes, you should go out and enrol to vote, and turn up on polling day. Your future, our future, will depend on it.