Politics, the thing that causes people to lose sanity. Politics to me means messy. This past election season was long, grueling, and in fact, messy. This being my first year I could vote in the election, I was pleasantly unimpressed with the experience. Filling out my ballot was quite confusing because of the lack of information that school curriculums are teaching. I learned the basics my senior year of high school, but I don’t remember much as someone with some memory loss.
As a citizen of the United States, I sound ungrateful for my voice and don’t feel like I have a voice in many ways. Luckily, the majority wins, and my vote was apart of that majority. I am happy with the outcome but also am lucky to say that I don’t feel too much that reelecting a new president affects me. I am so grateful for the family and life I have been blessed with. Although it doesn’t affect me personally, I know millions of people out there that it does affect, which makes me sad. It makes me sad to have watched the BLM movements around this country this year because it means that those who have been oppressed for the last hundred years still have yet to see a change.
As someone who grew up in a small town, I didn’t exactly find my opinion on politics until I came to college three years ago. I am aware that this makes me seem like I don’t care about what my future holds but to put it honestly, I hate politics. The inevitable intersection of design and politics makes me curious about what my future projects hold. To be a young white female in this country is something I am grateful.
To me, design feels as close to an outlet from reality as possible, making the inevitability of politics and design intersecting a sad fact. In my opinion, I hope that my future endeavors will stay far away from politics. Design is something that I use to express my feelings and thoughts towards the assigned project. When mixing in politics with something that emotional, I feel like it can misconstrue the ideals I hope to portray. I can improve my knowledge of politics so when and I am assigned to design for politics, I will be prepared.
I can say that I feel ignored in the ability to have an opinion that matters, but I want to help those who don’t exactly have a voice. Designing work relating to politics for those around me is something I would do. I make it sound like I don’t care about how other people are being touched by things happening globally, but I do care and just hope for peace and happiness for everyone in this world, although very difficult to achieve.
