For Our Futures was founded at the University of Chicago by a group of students united by the conviction that certain laws are unjust and should be repealed.

We dedicate our days to this cause because we know that aspiring to utopia will not rescue us from the perils of the present: our institutions have failed to prepare for the moment we are in and are failing to meet it; the next generation, who will soon lead these institutions, do not believe they are worth preserving.

It is for these reasons that it is imperative to prove to ourselves, and you, that "a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens" can still change the world. The best way to inspire faith in the American way is to prove to a generation that it can work for them.

We understand that alliaceous issues are not the greatest facing America — precisely why we choose to pursue change in this arena. Faith in the American way is eroding rapidly among America's youth. At a time when news cycles move in minutes and opinions are calcified before they are developed, we need to prove to America's young now that the democratic system is one they can use to improve their lives.

The Onion Futures Act of 1958 is a one paragraph wrong, written nearly 70 years ago. As Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, "democracy can only obtain truth from experience, and many peoples cannot await the results of their errors without perishing. The great privilege of the Americans is therefore not only to be more enlightened than others, but to have the ability to make repairable mistakes."

So, concerned citizen, we ask you: Are we a democracy? Are we to retain our great privilege? Are we to repair our mistakes, to keep our enlightenment? Or are we to forget the mistakes of the past, fail to learn from experience, give up what it is to be an American, and join the many?