Spencer, 
I applaud that you want to be involved. "politically engaged" as you put it.  I remember what I was like when i was 17 years old, thoughts that "anything is possible."  Then I got a rude wake up call that showed me, other people around did not want "anything possible." They loved talking about it but what they really wanted was their safe space where they understand it and are comfortable with the status quo. Talking about "the larger picture" just served as a distraction to protect the local status quo.

You commented about people loosing if Trump builds a wall. you should talk to the politicians in Hawaii about that because they build walls (fences) all of the time to keep undesirable people (homeless) out. Fence around state land, fence around the canal. There are fences going up all over Hawaii to keep "those people", out of areas.  Is it OK to wall off the homeless citizens, but not OK to wall off illegals ? You know what those fences do ? they protects the status quo.