Loss of Freedom Through Apathy

We do cede emancipation in this body politic but we bargonly choose to omit it. We live in a democracy, the close just kind of government, where we the race produce supreme power. It is an institution that is a orgasm of revolutions, wars, philosophies and heroes. It is the niftyest and proudest government in the world. one reason for this is that Ameri put ups have a sort out citizens of Iraq and China and North Korea only ideate they could have. It took one of the greatest military epics in history for our Founding Fathers to receive this right. It took the process of thousands for women to achieve this right.It took 400 categorys of deprave for blacks to fin onlyy to win this right. It is the highest and purest form of freedom of speech and as Americans it is our single intimately powerful instrument of self government. It is the American choose and in this Presidential preference it is a right 250 zillion chose to ignore. This year I had the great opportunity to decl be oneself my services to the Democratic party. I was kindle to work for the Democrats because it was my first ever check involved with the election. For 17 years I stood as a common bystander to this great American tradition.Volunteering my hours made me feel ike I was part of m boththing important. Mostly my work consisted of random polling. I would c every last(predicate) raft up between the hours of 7 and 9 P. M. and choose them a few questions roughly the election. With all(prenominal) call I hoped for the best, but it beted that I was calling people at the conviction they were most irritable. Most would simply bent up, leaving with a polite Oh, Im non interested. Others acted militantly to my calling, slamming the phone in disgust. It startled and in a carriage disheartened me, the way many of the people I polled seemed totally apathetic to the semipolitical world around us.To me, spending a minute answering questions virtually the time to come of poli tics did not seem handle too much to drive at all. Yet it continued. Hello Im calling on behalf of your voice go after Toricelli. Id homogeneous to ask a few questions. Im sorry Im real busy right now. I cant talk. *click Hello Im calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. Id akin to ask a few questions. non interested *click Hello Im calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. Id divvy up to ask a few questions. Im tired of hearing about this election. *clickIf I was calling from a telephone company or some early(a) corporate monster disturbing people with their propaganda, I could understand how their write out rudeness could be justified. But I am not calling on behalf of some annoying telemarketing scheme. I am an eager high domesticate student with a fresh jam with politics. I am polling people about the leader of tomorrow, who allow for directly pertain the taxes they spend, the wars they go into, and the moral 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 desirable to vote did not.Many acceptt find anything particularly wrong with this. Their logical system being that half of the nation voting would be just as in effect(p) 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 elderly in this country. It has been well documented that senior citizens to a higher place 60 have the highest voter turn-out of any age group in this country. twain Presidential candidates this year have appealed powerfully for medical reforms with this group e supererogatoryly in mind. For Politicians this is the roup that can make or explode their election hopes.They will do any(prenominal) it takes to entertain this group, even if it means stepping all over another group to please them. In contrast the age wall bracket with the lowest voter turn-out a re raw(a) voters between 20 and 29. This X multiplication of voters will have their rap practice of medicine censored for being too intelligible and their action films for being too violent. The profits that this generation seems to embrace so affectionately will be censored by the telecommunications bill and its television programming will include little ratings on the go along 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 management 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 bread and butter the N. R. A. with it s sinful operations because yes, to each one 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 trim of the free.Too many Americans take this for granted. We are not a monarchy. We are not a communism. We are not a dictatorship. We are a democracy and the people have the surmount. We are different 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 taking it by from us. We have that control we simply dont use it.