I cannot fully agree, Rad-ish. Both parties are problematic, but the foundation of the problem are those of us who either fail to vote, or vote on only a couple of issues. A person who only cares about gun rights doesn’t look at side issues like the one raised by Mr. Anderson’s cartoon. Just as many people who demand equal treatment for the races and gays don’t think that hard about the banks being given more power to duplicate the mistakes made in the last decade. There is ample evidence to support the idea that had Americans gone to the polls in the same numbers they do for Presidential elections, the results would have been much different. But with gerrymandering, impediments to make voting easy and accessible, and a general feeling by youth in particular that their votes don’t matter, people were too apathetic or too lazy to go to the polls.I still wish we could make election day a holiday, replacing the Presidents’ day holiday with a holiday for the day on which we elect Presidents and other officials. Neither party wants to create an environment where a vast majority of Americans want, or perhaps are compelled, to vote. They benefit from their duels to activate the extreme bases of their parties while making moderates and independents feel hopeless.I rarely disagree with you, and on this specific point, I agree the Republicans are motivated by greed to help the banks, but I see where Democrats have moved to placate financial lobbyists so cannot call the GOP THE problem, just a result of the underlying problem in our society. Us.Respectfully,C.
I cannot fully agree, Rad-ish. Both parties are problematic, but the foundation of the problem are those of us who either fail to vote, or vote on only a couple of issues. A person who only cares about gun rights doesn’t look at side issues like the one raised by Mr. Anderson’s cartoon. Just as many people who demand equal treatment for the races and gays don’t think that hard about the banks being given more power to duplicate the mistakes made in the last decade. There is ample evidence to support the idea that had Americans gone to the polls in the same numbers they do for Presidential elections, the results would have been much different. But with gerrymandering, impediments to make voting easy and accessible, and a general feeling by youth in particular that their votes don’t matter, people were too apathetic or too lazy to go to the polls.I still wish we could make election day a holiday, replacing the Presidents’ day holiday with a holiday for the day on which we elect Presidents and other officials. Neither party wants to create an environment where a vast majority of Americans want, or perhaps are compelled, to vote. They benefit from their duels to activate the extreme bases of their parties while making moderates and independents feel hopeless.I rarely disagree with you, and on this specific point, I agree the Republicans are motivated by greed to help the banks, but I see where Democrats have moved to placate financial lobbyists so cannot call the GOP THE problem, just a result of the underlying problem in our society. Us.Respectfully,C.