Kayla Chadwick

I voted in my first national election in 2008, for the eventual winner, President Barack Obama. As a freshman in college, I cannot describe how that election night felt. Coming of age in the age of “Hope and Change,” and “Yes We Can,” was formative in so many ways ? indeed, I’m certain I’ll never completely understand how that campaign, that rhetoric, and that eventual victory shaped me.

Like many Americans, I'm having politics fatigue. Or, to be more specific, arguing-about-politics fatigue. I haven't run out of salient points or evidence for my political perspective, but there is a particular stumbling block I keep running into when trying to reach across the proverbial aisle and have those "difficult conversations" so smugly suggested by think piece after think piece: I don't know how to explain to someone why they should care about other people.

Like many Americans, I’m having politics fatigue. Or, to be more specific, arguing-about-politics fatigue. I haven’t run out of salient points or evidence for my political perspective, but there is a particular stumbling block I keep running into when trying to reach across the proverbial aisle and have those “difficult conversations” so smugly suggested by think piece after think piece: I don’t know how to explain to someone why they should care about other people.