I have students who have "opted out" of the whole process of democracy! They don't vote because "the Federal Government has nothing to do with me!" Or so they say. When questioned they admit that they pay taxes; they expect the Fed Gov to keep the Interstates flowing, and to "save" them from disasters, and to protect them if they are "attacked" by another country, or a terrorist, or whomever.
But they don't know anything else about anything! Depending on whether they know (or like) immigrants they are for or against Trump's "wall;" they like or don't like a higher minimum wage;
they want higher (or lower) taxes; they just want to be "left alone" and have no involvement with anything that might shake the sameness of their own particular "status quo."
So they are not paying attention; they are not doing any research; and they don't intend to vote! We've gotten to the point that only the KKK and White Supremacists are interested in voting "for their rights." Yikes!
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