"If you didn’t watch the debates, fine, I get it. If you did watch the debates, are you OK?"
Listen to Lizzo's powerful message to young voters after the first debate...
Listen to Lizzo's powerful message to young voters after the first debate...
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00:00I'm not telling you who to vote for.
00:01I'm not telling you what to be.
00:03I'm just telling you to read the room
00:07and ask yourself, do you feel good?
00:11Do you feel safe?
00:13Do you feel listened to?
00:15And if not, how the hell are we gonna get there?
00:18The first time I was old enough to vote,
00:20I voted for Obama.
00:22When I was in intermediate school, middle school,
00:26I watched the Twin Towers fall.
00:29I watched us go into war.
00:31This is the America that I know.
00:33Nothing has been peaceful since.
00:37I think it's important to realize
00:40that this newer generation,
00:41we are not from the generation of Republican or Democrat.
00:45We're not, we're just not.
00:48We didn't grow up with that rhetoric,
00:51that ideal, we grew up with right or wrong,
00:56good or bad.
00:57And it's almost toxic to grow up with that mentality
01:02and only have red or blue to choose from.
01:05So of course you're gonna superimpose good on one
01:08and bad on the other.
01:10But every time I speak,
01:11I am never speaking to a political party.
01:16I'm speaking to human beings.
01:18And even right now, I'm talking to a human being.
01:20It's been hard for me to even move forward in that way
01:24because all I wanna do is inspire people
01:27to register to vote and to vote and to know your power.
01:31I have no insinuation on who you wanna vote for
01:33and no insinuation of what party you wanna vote for.
01:36I'm just talking to you, the newly turned 18 year olds,
01:42the people who felt indecisive about voting,
01:45the people who didn't think their vote mattered,
01:47the people who believe they don't have power.
01:50Yes, to a degree we are powerless.
01:52And hell yes, to a degree it feels powerless.
01:56But God damn it, if these older generations
02:01believe in their power and take their ass to the polls
02:05and use that power, do it, no matter what, so should we.
02:12Because this country is still going
02:15whether we want it to or not.
02:17The way this country does politics, I mean,
02:19is still going whether we want it to or not.
02:22Whether we like the way they do politics or not.
02:25We can't sit out.
02:26I believe in togetherness and I haven't felt together
02:30not a single day ever.
02:32None of this shit is together.
02:34The fact that we go off of a two-party system
02:37ain't together at all.
02:41United we what?
02:44And divided we what?
02:49You gonna set us up for failure in the first place?
02:52Splitting us up?
02:53If you didn't watch the debates, fine.
02:56I get it.
02:57If you did watch the debates, are you okay?
03:01Regardless if you watched it or not,
03:03this election is happening with you or without you.
03:08And all I ask is for you to be present.