PROTEST WORKS

From This Modern World, originally from Truthout (which has no permalinks):

"We're the GOP Jamboree, a singing group here to support George W. Bush," she said. I asked if I could get an interview, and she said yes.

Confession: I was planning on taking this young Republican apart at the seams, and all on camera. It didn't quite work out that way.

Once the interview was underway, I asked her what it was about Bush and the Republicans she supported. She hesitated, cast her eyes downward, and looked inexplicably sad.

"I don't know," she said.

She came all the way from California as part of an organized singing group whose whole purpose was to support Bush. An afternoon talking to the protesters, however, had filled her head with data that did not jibe with what she had been told.

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The left, myself included, love to go on and on about how awful the conservatives are, how they’re ruining this country, how cold hearted or stupid they are. However, the conservatives are just one part of the population. Sadly, it seems that about half the country has only a vague idea about what’s going on in the realm of American power, both political and economic. This is no surprise: history, government, and economics are taught in public schools in such a way that most people are just plain bored by these subjects, never realizing how important they actually are. Whether that’s by design (I think it’s by design, myself) or coincidence, the effect is the same. Most Americans have no desire to understand or educate themselves about the topics that citizens must understand in order for democracy to function. We’re in big trouble, but the funny thing is that it’s been this way for a long time.

Haha.

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