“The
government” is considered to be the top problem in America, according to the Gallup organization.
About 18% of
adults pointed to government as the “most important” problem in a recent
survey, and 11% named the economy as the second worst problem.
Admittedly, 18%
is an obvious minority, but this finding underscores what I think of as the
most important problem in our country: our elected representatives really aren't doing
any governing.
And while we're on
the subject, I’ll offer my candidate for “most puzzling” problem in the United
States: why aren’t more folks admitting that the “most important” problem is
that they didn’t bother to vote in the last election?
The “government”
problem—the failure of our democracy—isn’t going to be fixed until a lot more
people start voting.
Copyright © Richard
Carl Subber 2015
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