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Political Un-Involvement

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For this blog post, I will be reflecting and expanding on my discussion leader question: Can effective change be made by not voting, and political un-involvement? Along with more meme discussion. To some extent, yes change can be made without political involvement. Immediately, I thought of major movements like the civil rights movement that influenced the passage of several legislations that overturned discrimination practices. In the modern world of today, the Black Lives Matter movement is also working towards a similar movement, ending policy brutality. So yes, some form of change can be made from political un-involvement. However, there  are plenty of people that would not agree with that. I have seen many memes and quotes of people saying “If you don’t vote you don’t have a right to complain”. I somewhat agree with that statement; for example, if someone wants to make a change (in regards to a proposition or who becomes president) then they should vote because it does make a