“But the candidates are all the same!” (Say in a whiny voice of a ‘very busy’ college student.” (If this sounds like that’s what I was told when speaking recently to a college student, and I’m bitter then you’re right.)
Oh they have an answer for that too! When I mentioned that nowadays we have smartphones and computers where we can investigate candidates’ policy positions, I was told “There’s too much information; how does someone know what to trust.” (paraphrasing)
It is always my first question when someone is bitching-----DID YOU VOTE? and if so, WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR? If it is trump, then they get a middle finger before I flounce off.
We have a saying here where I am: No vote cast, no fucking grumbling! Geez.
“But the candidates are all the same!” (Say in a whiny voice of a ‘very busy’ college student.” (If this sounds like that’s what I was told when speaking recently to a college student, and I’m bitter then you’re right.)
Intellectual laziness
Oh they have an answer for that too! When I mentioned that nowadays we have smartphones and computers where we can investigate candidates’ policy positions, I was told “There’s too much information; how does someone know what to trust.” (paraphrasing)
And stupidity, Walt. Lots of stupidity.
not just laziness - but lack of interest in what’s going on in the world….”let me just play my video games, leave me
alone!”. sticking their heads in the sand
It is always my first question when someone is bitching-----DID YOU VOTE? and if so, WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR? If it is trump, then they get a middle finger before I flounce off.