Living in our past

"The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes." That is the quote I am planning to use in my essay. I like the idea of us living in the past, and being young adults coming into the world we are living in our parents ideas. They overwhelm us with their ideas and we follow along because right now we havent come with our own ideas. Since there is an election coming up I thought this would be the perfect idea to write about. I want to bring Emerson to life in my story and have him touch on how we dont have our own ideas we are only thinking what we think is right which is usually what our parents think. I wanted to touch on how we live in a town full of liberals/ democrats, and there is that very small amount of people who are republicans, or who will admit they are republicans, because there is that little bit of parents who are republicans. I want to have it be the day of election, were it is in full discussion and people are arguing about who should win, whos better and why, and Emerson is just standing going my god this is stupid, come up with your own ideas, be your own person, do not take past beliefs, he is looking at how ignorant most of us can be when half the time we dont know what we are talking about.