"Icebound" wrote in message
t.cable.rogers.com...

The
current voter-apathy is some western societies might be a serious symptom
that a significant segment of the population no longer gives a real damn
about their country.

Or it could be a measure that they don't need to give a damn. Hear me out:
if you lived in Iraq under Saddam, Romania unde Ceaucescu, etc. you needed
to pay *very* careful attention to "politics" because it was a life-or-death
issue, and it seeped into every aspect of your daily life, too. Want a
better apartment, job, anything, all of life was controlled by government.
Apathy meant death or deprivation.

Here in the US, you can live an entire upper middle-class life and unless
you have a run-in with the local school committee or zoning board, never
really care who's in control.

I'm not saying this is the *intelligent* choice, but given that the history
of mankind is largely that of tyrants and kings, this is something of an
achievement.

digress.) Of that segment, some tiny deranged portion may harbour real
enmity.


Statistical aberration. No question we have our share of homegrown wack
jobs, guys who shoot up abortion clinics, apocalyptic visionaries in Texas,
etc. But no one proposed baggage screening to get on my Cessna when that's
all it was. Not to be ignored but they are not the primary problem today, or
even the secondary one.

Best,
-cwk.