The Apathy Party

We truly have an amazing third party in the political realm and today I realized most of my peers are part of it. I am of course speaking of the Apathy Party. The group of people who are so sure their vote won’t count, and that they can’t make a difference, that they just don’t bother. “Best to just go with it and not complain” I was told today. I almost screamed. This is the same mindset that probably got Chris Daughtry tossed off American Idol. “Why vote for him, he’s a shoe in?” Ah, because if you don’t vote, he won’t be kept on the show. In may communities there will local elections soon and 70%-90% of the population will heed the call of the Apathy Party and maybe catch a movie or watch some TV, or work in the yard – anything but participate in Government. I’ve never believed we get the government we deserve, just the one we make. So what does it say that something that so impacts our life we leave to the control of so few. I mean I’ve heard stories of elections were only 90 people voted out of 5,000…the looser lost by one vote…and neither of his two registered kids voted! This drives me more crazy than the fact the government of King George the Second feels it can do anything at all. Anything.
Of course I am against the NSA data mining project and I consider it a violation of my rights but all I can hope for is enough people leave the Apathy party to vote in November and help clean up this mess.

But then again, why bother?