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When parental honesty breeds despair

My teenage daughter asked me why I vote if I think the system is rigged and I realized I've been teaching her cynicism while expecting her to somehow maintain hope.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

She's confronting how her own disillusionment might be destroying her child's capacity for civic engagement before it even begins.

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