Assignment task:
Response to
Reply from Sara Sarinana
Recently (over the last two years) there has been an increase in civic engagement in the U.S. I think it was on the decline before this due to different reasons such as social media, economic stress, political polarization, and distrust in institutions. And I think it is on an upswing now due to different factors such as social movements, civic activism by youth, and greater attention to voting access. I do not consider myself politically active, what has stopped me is the feeling that something bad could happen to me for being so, but I truly hope to slowly lose that fear since I consider it to be something extremely important. In addition to this, I think that I should first take the time to be more informed because it is something that I also consider to be extremely important in order to make decisions, especially such big ones like these.