Thursday, March 7, 2019

Loss of Freedom Through Apathy

We do give way immunity in this country but we scarcely choose to ignore it. We live in a democracy, the most the full wayful(prenominal) kind of presidential term, where we the large number hold supreme power. It is an institution that is a shutdown of revolutions, wars, philosophies and heroes. It is the sterling(prenominal) and proudest government in the world. One reason for this is that Americans have a right citizens of Iraq and China and North Korea only dreamed they could have. It excessivelyk one of the greatest military epics in history for our Founding Fathers to receive this right. It took the marching of thousands for women to strain this right.It took 400 years of ab rehearse for blacks to finally to win this right. It is the highest and purest form of freedom of speech and as Americans it is our single most powerful instrument of self government. It is the American voting and in this presidential election it is a right 250 million chose to ignore. This y ear I had the great opportunity to volunteer my go to the Democratic party. I was excited to work for the Democrats because it was my first ever have it away involved with the election. For 17 years I stood as a joint bystander to this great American tradition.Volunteering my hours made me feel ike I was part of approximatelything important. more than often than non my work consisted of random polling. I would call mountain up surrounded by the hours of 7 and 9 P. M. and ask them a few questions about the election. With all call I hoped for the best, but it seemed that I was calling people at the time they were most irritable. Most would simply hang up, leaving with a polite Oh, Im not interested. Others acted militantly to my calling, slamming the phone in disgust. It take aback and in a way disheartened me, the way many of the people I polled seemed totally apathetic to the political world around us.To me, expending a indorsement answering questions about the future of politics did not seem kindred too much to ask at all. insofar it continued. how-dye-do Im calling on beone-one-half of your congressman bobber Toricelli. Id like to ask a few questions. Im sorry Im really busy right now. I cant talk. *click Hello Im calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. Id like to ask a few questions. Not interested *click Hello Im calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. Id like to ask a few questions. Im tired of hearing about this election. *clickIf I was calling from a telephone company or some other corporate hulk disturbing people with their propaganda, I could understand how their sheer rudeness could be justified. alone I am not calling on behalf of some annoying telemarketing scheme. I am an eager high instruct student with a fresh infatuation with politics. I am polling people about the leader of tomorrow, who will directly affect the taxes they spend, the wars they go into, and the incorrupt values that they seem to hold so dear. To take a minute did not seem like a lot. In this past election over 52% of the population eligible to vote did not.Many begettert find anything particularly wrong with this. Their logic being that half of the nation voting would be just as effective as the entire nation. The problem with this reasoning is that some groups in America vote in larger numbers than other groups. Take for example the patriarchal in this country. It has been well documented that senior citizens above 60 have the highest voter turn-out of any age group in this country. Both Presidential candidates this year have appealed strongly for medical reforms with this group e particularly in mind. For Politicians this is the roup that can make or break their election hopes.They will do whatever it takes to please this group, even if it means stepping all over some other group to please them. In contrast the age bracket with the last(a) voter turn-out are new voters between 20 and 29. This X g eneration of voters will have their rap music censored for being too explicit and their action films for being too violent. The Internet that this generation seems to hatch so dearly will be censored by the telecommunications tip and its television programming will include little ratings on the give left of their screens.Politicians will have no problem abusing the rights of this Generation X because simply put, they dont go our and vote. In this way the government pays more attention to the elderly as compared to the young. They will care more about the trials and tribulations of the rich and middle-class rather than the suffering of the poor. They will backup man the N. R. A. with it s sinful operations because yes, each and every one of their 2. 5 million members vote. The vote determines who has the power in this country. It is not necessarily the majority. It is those who are dedicated. America is the land of the free.Too many Americans take this for granted. We are not a m onarchy. We are not a communism. We are not a dictatorship. We are a democracy and the people have the control. We are unalike from all the other types of government because the voices that govern us are our own. But when 250 million do not vote, who has the right to say that we control ourselves? When half chooses to hold their mouths, who is to say that we are not a nation of special interests who do not hold their mouths? We have freedom, but it is apathy that is fetching it away from us. We have that control we simply dont use it.

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