[lbo-talk] None of the above ?
Chuck
chuck at mutualaid.org
Tue Jan 8 11:17:51 PST 2008
Eric wrote:
>> It basically measured what people really thought about the presidential
>> campaign. There was one choice that said something like "I'm totally
>> disgusted" which was getting around 37% of the vote.
>
> Clearly that's nothing but a sign of their utter apathy and complete
> depoliticization.
No. One of the other choices was "I'm apathetic" which got lots of
votes. It's pretty clear that many of these people are politically
engaged but are disgusted by the current political system.
I would think that the truly apathetic people would either not take the
poll or wouldn't be visiting CNN.com in the first place.
Chuck
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