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To: Road Walker who wrote (263813)	12/8/2005 9:13:31 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574031

"I always wonder about that... X and Y generations seem so passive." That started with my generation. And yes, it grows out of a sense of frustration, of feeling marginalized. For my generation, we saw the great wave of political activism crash on the rocks of "4 dead in Ohio". We, for the most part, tried to distance ourselves as far as possible from politics in our late teens and twenties. Instead we concentrated on getting and keeping jobs, no mean trick during the late '70s and '80s, and left the politics to the others. And that cynicism has contributed to this current spate of corruption. It probably is no accident that many of the ones driving this current spate of corruption are around my age. If you already view politics as a corrupt losers game, why not exploit it?