{"id":11437,"date":"2018-11-13T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=11437"},"modified":"2018-11-21T23:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T05:12:05","slug":"lydia-hester-rising-wisconsin-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/lydia-hester-rising-wisconsin-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"This rising Wisconsin Democrat can&#8217;t even vote yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 election of Donald Trump mobilized a lot of people politically. Some aren\u2019t even old enough to vote yet.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the case with Lydia Hester, a 17-year-old Madison East student recently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a3mzde\/meet-a-17-year-old-rising-star-among-wisconsin-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profiled on HBO\u2019s <em>Vice News Tonight<\/em><\/a>. Tired of the seemingly endless bad news associated with Trump presidency, Hester began organizing marches and walkouts before jumping into the larger world of state politics. Before the election, she interned for incoming state treasurer Sarah Godlewski.<\/p>\n<p>Hester stresses what amounts to taking baby steps; i.e., as great as it would be to take on Donald Trump, one must first start with Scott Walker. And as someone currently attending a Wisconsin public high school, few people have a better handle on the state of the schools under Walker than an actual student.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/video.vice.com\/en_us\/embed\/5be1f720be407763cc73bf27\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\u201cI don\u2019t know how much longer public schools can last with another four years of Scott Walker,\u201d she told <em>Vice<\/em>, adding that teachers are reluctant even to give out pencils since they\u2019re paying out of pocket for them.<\/p>\n<p>State school superintendent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/tony-evers-elected-governor-wisconsin\/\">Tony Evers defeated Walker<\/a> in last week\u2019s election. And while she couldn\u2019t vote, it\u2019s not hard to see the impact young people like Hester have on elections. The youth vote is very important, as this year has made abundantly clear (voting between ages 18-29 was <a href=\"https:\/\/targetearly.targetsmart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up 808%<\/a> from 2014).<\/p>\n<p>The whole six-minute <em>Vice<\/em> clip is worth a watch, and not just for the Madison cameos (what up, Majestic!). It\u2019s inspiring to see people like Hester get active and remain unperturbed out on the civic frontlines, canvassing in the rain and putting up with sour-faced <em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em>&#8211;<em>w<\/em>atching geezers and torrential downpours.<\/p>\n<p>Or as Hester puts it: \u201cI\u2019m wet, cold and sick, but the election waits for nobody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 election of Donald Trump mobilized a lot of people politically. Some aren\u2019t even old enough to vote yet. 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