Laura and lloyd wrote:
I think voters do not vote because they do not have sufficient
motivation to do so. I would not call that apathy. I would not give it
any sort of label.
Some of the reasons people voiced this week about why they don't vote:
* "I don't know anything about what's going on, so I'm not voting,"
-a young mom and waitress
* "We get screwed equally either way, so why bother." -my nephew, a
patent/copyright lawyer in his thirties
* "People who move a lot and pay all their bills on line or whose
utilities are included in their rent don't have any proof of
residence. The rules say a utility bill. Something's wrong here."
-an election judge
* "My address is in _______, MN" -a man who has lived three blocks
from me for thirty years and is nearing retirement
* 'It's a DFL town and the DFL is so corrupt it cannot, and should
not, be saved' -a neighbor and good friend and sometimes myself
On this last bullet, I will make the distinction between a political
party being corrupt, in toto, and those individual office holders in the
political party who are not corrupt, but are supported by a corrupt
organization.
Was it two or three city council cycles ago that both Annie Young and
Dean Zimmermann left the DFL and moved to the Greens? I do not know
their motives for having done so, but I do view them as canaries in the
coal mine of the DFL, since both were ardent DFLers who labored in the
party's vineyard many years.
If it's a DFL town, then it's the DFL that has to get out the vote.
As well, democrats in general have prospered as the Democrats held the
majority in city, state, and federal office, but now that a substantial
number have prospered, and generations have passed, those DFLers are
demanding an impossibility from the DFL party. They want social liberals
and fiscal conservatives and they want that impossibility in each
candidate for office.
In the White House, presently, we have a group who spend money like a
drunken sailor, have not one scruple to call their own, are as corrupt
as Tammany Hall, put the Teapot Dome Scandal in the deep shade, and yet
they consider themselves the most god fearing of conservatives and are
the leaders of the party which identifies itself as conservative.
How do you convince people who have anything like a logical marker in
their DNA, that voting is going to impact the situation for the better?
WizardMarks, Central
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