Jackie Corin and David Hogg on Pod Save America

Go listen to the Pod Save America titled Witch Hunt! It’s great as always, and you’ll get to hear from two Parkland students. Here are my favorite bits from the interview.

At 46:46, Jackie Corin:

We’re going to be traveling to universities and high schools and other community events and telling them our stories and our values. And we’re going to be setting up voter reg booths, because we want everyone to know that their voice and their check on a box matters. We don’t want people to continue thinking that they’re just one person, that they’re “not going to make a difference in the election I’m not going to go vote”. We don’t want people to think that, because right now only 1 in 5 people from ages of 18-29 actually go vote. And we want to change that to four-fifths. We don’t care the way they vote. We’re just pushing voter education, so that people are aware of what the politicians stand for. And we want people to understand what they’re voting for when they vote along the party line, and they might not agree with that. So we want people to know who they’re voting, know what they stand for, and be smart about their decision.

David Hogg:

In the same way that Jackie said, I don’t think people should be voting along party lines. Because every party has their own messed up part. But what we want to make sure people do is focus on the candidate basis, rather than along party lines. Because if they don’t do that, we’re just going to allow this corruption to keep reaching into Washington and proliferate our democracy and our country.

At 49:14, David:

[News outlets are covering this issue still] not because they care that much, but because the people of America do now

At 49:27, Jackie:

So many kids are supporting us, and they’re organizing their own movements and their own clubs in school. So it’s not just Parkland at this point. It’s every single high school, it’s every single middle school. It’s every single college. It’s spread like wildfire and that’s why it’s not dying. Because now, every single kid is mad.

At 50:10, David Hogg:

There’s always going to be people that are assholes out there … It’s politics, people get afraid and they misunderstand ppl. And that’s where I think a lot of this comes from is ppl not understanding what we’re trying to say here. We’re not trying to take your guns. We’re trying to save lives and we’re trying to save the future of America. And again, it’s really USA over NRA is what we have to push here. Because this is not an issue that’s Democrat or Republican. This is … an American issue that we have to work on.

At 51:45, Jackie:

We’re not fighting fire with fire. We’re fighting the NRA with the hopeful voices of the generation that’s going to soon be the core power of America.

At 54:52, David:

I don’t care if they are Democrats or Republicans. I just care about who they’re supported by in terms of special interests.

#GoodTrouble