Everyone should take at least a passing interest in the things going on around them, and realize no matter how great or small they feel they are, their voice CAN be heard and they CAN make a difference.

People don’t vote because they don’t believe it will make a difference…that is exactly what elected officals want: only old people voting, old people who are very easily manipulated by very easy to predict variables. If young people started caring and started voting, who knows what fancy would take them up from month to month, year to year…who knows what issues they would think important! Best that they think their vote wouldn’t count, best that they not vote at all, and the existing system can perpetuate itself safely, everyone gets re-elected year after year, and the big fat piggy bank can be safely dipped into by all parties involved.

K, I like the “Abe Lincoln”. Sounds like you two are tight!

I figure most of my life (when it comes to “real” matters) has been spent in the back few rows. Hell, being in the back of the bus was always where I wanted to be. However, more often than not I was up front. Then there, entered G.

I find that the more I think about that the more I should have realized sooner the front is where it’s at, not the back. It’s a good thing, it’s never too late.

I will see that my children are involved much sooner than I ever was. I want them interested. I want them to realize that they can make a difference. That there is a right way and a wrong way. I can only hope that when they are flipping through their history books that they will read about all these recent wrong ways facing justice.

Here’s a quote from Julie a couple of days ago. It’s based on her seeing something on the news about our president talking about Iran.

“Bush is going to get us all killed.” Now there’s a bumper sticker…