Undergraduate / Wake up America ,UT issue of importance essay E [3]

the prompt is choose an issue of importance to you-the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope-and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.

I am having trouble, on figuring out my topic, have narrowed it down to political ignorance, but I am open to suggestions if anyone can give some helpful tips for the thesis and how to format it. Here is the intro so far

Only 1 in 4 people can name the rights granted by the First Amendment. 65 percent, the number of Americans that did not know what happened at the Constitutional Convention. I could not believe these startling facts i had found. I kept asking myself why Americans are politically ignorant, and how it is undermining our government, promoting political apathy , and causing ...