Did not miss the part of your recommendation that voting be a teachable moment for families and strongly agree with you. However, IMO, even if we had a national voting day and it was a paid holiday not that many more people would vote and few people would take their children with them that don’t already do so.
It has taken us YEARS to get where we are. It won’t be undone overnight. I rather liken it to church attendance where the father gathers the mother and their kiddos and takes them to Sunday School and church every week, reads the Bible and prays every evening when they all sit down for family dinner. It’s a matter of choice, priorities, lifestyle and accepting that it is one’s responsibility to do so.
“not that many more people would vote and few people would take their children with them that don’t already do so.”
Remembering that this is a secondary benefit, the main reason is to avoid voting fraud and media manipulation of the vote.
Kids would be home with parents and may HAVE TO take them with them. The opportunity to take the kids to the polls would be there if they wanted to take them.
We can do nothing and things will get worse. More early voting, more corruption, voting won’t matter at all.
I refuse to have a defeatist attitude. We CAN make things better if we don’t just quit.