Ted, good article.
re: And then, before we could pick up the pieces of the election, Sept. 11, 2001, occurred and rocketed us into another hemisphere.
I know the pundits (and you) are always ranting about how divided we are. And I think that's true, for about 1/2 the population. The thing that I have found remarkable is the people who seem completely withdrawn from politics, they don't pay any attention; they don't seem to care at all. They don't watch or read the news, anywhere. If pressed they have an "opinion", but it's somehow achieved by osmosis, without any knowledge. I was talking to a guy that is a Bush and war supporter the other day, and he didn't know there was a deficit! He literally said "I thought we were just taking the money for the war from something else".
Reading that article, it dawned on me, maybe these folks are in denial; maybe that event was so traumatic that it just turned a lot of people away from news and politics. Whatever it is, it's different now than it used to be, IMHO.
John |
