Tuesday, October 12, 2004
An uninformed electorate is a modern invention
Britt Blaser writes heart-stopping first-hand tales of the Viet Nam war. This post (still informed by his Viet Nam experience) goes in a surprising direction:
"An uninformed electorate is a modern invention . . . At our nation's birth, most voters were smarter, tougher, better informed and more patriotic than you and me.
There's no such standard today. If I can sit on the receiving end of $500 million of advertising and find my way to a voting booth, I qualify. "
Comments:
For every American who felt the burning need to do *something* in response to September 11: you have an amazing power. You can cast an informed vote.
Turn off the TV and visit vote-smart.org or factcheck.org. Read people who disagree with you. Share what you learn with your friends and your neighbors.
Choosing the US president is an awesome responsibility even in peacetime. This year it's a matter of life and death. If we are patriotic we'll make ourselves better informed than any man of 1789 could have been.
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Turn off the TV and visit vote-smart.org or factcheck.org. Read people who disagree with you. Share what you learn with your friends and your neighbors.
Choosing the US president is an awesome responsibility even in peacetime. This year it's a matter of life and death. If we are patriotic we'll make ourselves better informed than any man of 1789 could have been.
