Yeah, you didn't just hear about it. You did it yourself. Your vote does matter. I get so angry when people say it doesn't. It's like saying you don't care about your people.
Every generation criticizes the younger generation.
It's been like that forever. My mom's mother probably looked at her generation and called them ingrates and morons. My mom doesn't look at me that way, but she looks at my generation that way. Since I'm half Oriental, my mom is always pressuring me to do good. Education needs criticism to build up the standards, but when they start comparing us to Japan, where they go to school 12 hours a day, it's apples and oranges.