Elect me your president, and I’ll spin off the US Army Corps of Engineers as a separate branch, it’s own uniformed service.

Service in the CoE, regular military, or perhaps employment in certain other civil services should be a prerequisite to vote, hold office, lobby, or be an officer, board member or stockholder of a corporation. We’ll find something for you to do, eradicating tumbleweeds, paving roads, laying railroad track, building schools.

You want a say in government, you spend your early 20s repairing dams.