Amanda Knox, exoneree, urges millennials to get political.

And she's not liking what she's hearing from the other side.

(She has also become an activist in criminal justice reform, and has recently served as a keynote speaker for Loyola University's Life After Innocence fundraiser.)

http://www.westseattleherald.com/2015/12/14/opinion/memes-motivations-and-millennials

Calls to deny the fact of climate change. To criminalize immigration. To abolish public health care. To enforce Christian religious morality on the rights of a secular state. To refuse entry of Muslim refugees into the United States. To implement a mandatory death penalty policy. To carpet bomb the Middle East.

Whoa.

But what made the hair on the back of my neck stand up was that these sentiments were not just being expressed by isolated, ignorant, hateful, extremist trolls who made the memes, but they were being echoed, in one form or another, by actual Presidential candidates.

Either this was an ingenious ploy to shock people into political participation, or this was the dangerous consequence of opting out for too long.

Either way, I’m informing myself, and I’m going to vote. Not because I’m excited. Because we are better than this. I invite my fellow millennials to do the same.