The absolute best . ? Be an amazing public high school science teacher for thirty years . Doing better than that is going to require a lot of talent and maybe luck . In the short term which I think is more in the spirit of your question I have no idea . Maybe join either major political party so they elect better candidates next time . <| sep |> he ' s come down with a case of the herpeederpees . theres no saving him <| sep |> According to CIRCLE exit polls , eligible millennials voted at a rate of about 50 % in general , and 55 % in heavily contested states . In the general populace , eligible voters only voted 58 % of the time . You ' ll notice that 55 % is not significantly less than the general rate of voting . Millennials voted , many more of them simply voted third party this year , or were otherwise disinterested in both major part candidates . The problem is the candidates were both undesirable , not that millennials are somehow worse people than anyone else .