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Loss of Freedom Through Apathy

We do have freedom in this country but we simply choose to ignore it. We live

in a democracy, the most just kind of government, where we the people hold

supreme power. It is an institution that is a culmination of revolutions, wars,

philosophies and heroes. It is the greatest and proudest government in the

world. One reason for this is that Americans have a right citizens of Iraq and

China and North Korea only dreamed they could have. It took one of the greatest

military epics in history for our Founding Fathers to receive this right. It

took the marching of thousands for women to achieve this right. It took 400

years of abuse for blacks to finally to win this right. It is the highest and

purest form of freedom of speech and as Americans it is our single most powerful

instrument of self government. It is the American vote and in this Presidential

election it is a right 250 million chose to ignore.

This year I had the great opportunity to volunteer my services to the Democratic

party. I was excited to work for the Democrats because it was my first ever

experience involved with the election. For 17 years I stood as a common

bystander to this great American tradition. Volunteering my hours made me feel

like I was part of something important.

Mostly my work consisted of random polling. I would call people up between the

hours of 7 and 9 P.M. and ask them a few questions about the election. With

every call I hoped for the best, but it seemed that I was calling people at the

time they were most irritable. Most would simply hang up, leaving with a polite

“Oh, I’m not interested.” Others acted militantly to my calling, slamming the

phone in disgust. It startled and in a way disheartened me, the way many of the

people I polled seemed totally apathetic to the political world around us. To

me, spending a minute answering questions about the future of politics did not

seem like too much to ask at all. Yet it continued.

“Hello I’m calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. I’d like to ask

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