Posted by
John Caile on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 1:22:52 PM
In Minnesota, Al Franken, an utterly obnoxious failed comedian-turned-Democrat-Senatorial-candidate, aided and abetted by George Soros backed state officials, is calmly stealing an election, vote by fraudulent vote.
In New York, Caroline Kennedy, little more than Paris Hilton with a better education, believes she should be a United States Senator because...well, apparently, because she's a Kennedy.
And in my former home state of Illinois, Democrat Governor Blogojevitch, acting like some sleazy Maxwell Street vendor, puts Barak Obama's former Senate seat up for bidding (with the ever-so-complicit media denying ANY involvement by the Obama team, of course.)
And the response from the average American to these outrages?
Silence.
In fact, if you ask them about it, few Americans can tell you any details about any of the above-mentioned scandals - most don't even know that Blogoyevitch is a Democrat, which is understandable, since it is virtually impossible to find the word "Democrat" preceding "Governor Blogoyevitch" in any of the countless news reports of his ongoing tribulations (now, had he been a Republican...).
This should come as no surprise. After all, an astonishing 40% of American voters still don't know that Democrats have been in the Congressional majority since 2006 (not surprisingly, over 60% of Obama voters still wrongly believe that Republicans are in charge).
If you ever wondered how we got to the point of Government mandated light bulbs, Ethanol subsidies, "global warming" schemes, and a Federal budget that cannot possibly be sustained, the answer is that most Americans are clueless about the workings of government.
They don't seem to understand how politics affects their own daily lives, directly and indirectly. Most do not even understand something as simple as how taxing "big business" merely ends up costing all of us - in increased prices and, in many cases, lost jobs.
When asked about "politics" in general, their response is often to roll their eyes and claim that "I'm not political" or that "I don't pay attention to that political stuff."
But even worse than a lack of understanding is that many people simply don't seem to care. And this growing apathy is not a partisan issue - too many Democrats and Republicans alike are guilty of not knowing or caring about the actions of their own government.
And once apathy becomes the norm, the unavoidable result is the loss of the most precious commodity of all - Liberty.