I just graduated high school, and one of the last classes I took was AP U.S. Government and Politics. As someone as passionate about civics and government as I am, being in that class was, honestly, a little depressing. Voting booths set up in a polling station, adorned with patriotic red, white, and blue bunting, ready for voters to cast their ballots. Based on a very informal, surface-level poll of my classmates, the general feeling seemed to be that the government was some