Everyone’s Interested In Politics
One of the things I’ve been noticing over the last year or so is the increasing number of referrals I see in my logs from message boards that are devoted to non-political topics. In the last month I’ve seen people directed to my site from sites dedicated to Christianity, weight-lifting, parenting, and music. And the message is usually something like “OT : Bush must be stopped!!”. As scan of the usenet reveals a similar trend, with links coming from alt.education, rec.music.artists.springsteen, and alt.html. Now, I understand the increased attention as we approach the election, but I’m impressed that so many people are motivated to broach the subject in a politically secular forum. I hope this is a good indicator of senate voter turnout.
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I think as good as Clinton was (and don’t worry, I know his many non-sexual faults) he lulled Americans into complacency about politics. They started getting the feeling that they could ignore who was in power, and everything would be okay. I know that was the case with me. Only when our leadership turns to shit do we realize we need to become active participants in our democracy. So in the last four years, yeah, tons of people have felt themselves forced off the bench and into the playing field to protect their health, their tax money, their freedoms, their safety, their economy, and their standing in the world, things that ran a bit more on auto-pilot during the nineties.
Comment by dAnimal — September 29, 2004 @ 6:00 pm