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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: miraje who wrote (76102)	11/15/2000 4:10:32 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Talk to some young people. All they want is a voice. They feel forced into one big party or another and feel they have no choice. And now they are watching the "adult" world make fools of themselves fighting over counties in Florida. In the eyes of the young generation, both major parties are losing big-time here. Their heros now are going to be McCain, Nader and Ventura, or anyone else who joins that group. Young people are socially liberal and environmental but they have too much rebellion in them to want to back the major party machines. They are sad, cynical and feel disenfranchised. The system is so big and corrupt to them that they feel angry and left out. Like the Republican 18-year-old girl I described who switched her vote from McCain to Gore to Nader then to Bush then regretted voting for Bush and was just left feeling frustrated. As a "loyal" democrat I even disgusted with my own party now. I still believe Al Gore would make a good (though not great) president but the whole process has left me, along with everyone else, little or no choice. I am now seeing Nader and Venturas' point, and while I don't think eithre of them is ready to be president I am pissed my vote didn't matter in this election and am pissed for the millions of others whose votes didn't matter, and will never matter the way we are going. Only a few battleground states votes matter now in a close election and that is ludicrous. No wonder so few people even bother to vote, or do so only out of civic duty.