I’m reading about “voter apathy” in the after-action
analysis of last Tuesday’s midterm
elections, a Republican win for sure.
I don’t think that’s the right word for it.
It’s more like “citizen apathy,” because voting is one thing
a lot of people didn't do last week.
In fact, the turnout nationwide was the lowest since 1942.
The current estimate is that barely more than 36% of folks eligible to vote actually did so....that's slightly more than half the number of folks
who voted in the 2012 presidential election.
In Indiana, only about 28% of those who could have voted
actually went to the polls.
When the norm is to skip voting, by what tortured definition
can we claim that we live in a democratic republic?
I fear that millions and tens of millions of Americans are
going to be hurt by what the new Congress will do and refuse to do in the next
two years. I suspect that most of them couldn’t be bothered to vote last week.
It’s a dreadful mystery to me.
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2014
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