 |
||||||||
|
1/09/2003 02:11:00 AM | Jared Alessandroni Hate to question your discernment skills, Michelle But, you wrote Jared wrote: "The fact that poor people don't vote is not nearly as sad as the fact that even some of them would vote for Bush." Hmm... this strikes me as a bit paternalistic. I think we have the burden of proof of convincing and educating voters rather than just blaming them for making decisions we don't agree with. What's sad is that we rich, elitist, ivory tower liberals -- and even progressives ;) -- don't think we have to bother to convince low income voters, either. We think they're too dumb to vote "right." I wrote "even some" as in wow, that sucks. That you took that to mean that I was displacing our political onus is somewhat unfounded if not irrational. Perhaps you should take some time whilst peering out of said tower to read. While even the concept of inherent blame is a stretch unless you are reactionary or just itching for a debate, you did at least glean, if haphazardly, the point from what I wrote. We do, as you noted through the use, I assume, of mature sarcasm, that we do in fact have every responsibility to educate voters. You are right, and there is no limit to the urgency of this call. When I was plastering Lewiston Maine at four AM on election day with flyers and doorknob hangers, I began to wonder wherein lies this burden which anyone who posts to this blog must admit to. In a Fox News culture, how do we express these sometimes abstract ideas? How do we cry out against dividends to a population who doesn't know what they are? How do we explain the intangible threat of infrastructure instability inherent to many of the proposed social service cuts? I'm asking literally. I don't know, but I know that the last election taught us that one way not to do it is to have candidates who don't know what they stand for. Anyone? perma link |
| 0 comments
0 Comments: |
Dartmouth The Free Press Alums for Social Change The Green Magazine The Dartmouth Dartmouth Observer Dartmouth Review Dartlog Inner Office The Little Green Blog Welton Chang's Blog Vox in Sox MN Publius (Matthew Martin) Netblitz Dartmouth Official News Other Blogs Ampersand Atrios Arts & Letters Altercation Body and Soul Blog For America Brad DeLong Brad Plumer CalPundit Campus Nonsense Clarksphere Crooked Timber Cursor Daily Kos Dean Nation Dan Drezner The Front Line Instapundit Interesting Times Is That Legal? Talking Points Memo Lady-Likely Lawrence Lessig Lean Left Left2Right Legal Theory Matthew Yglesias Ms. Musings MWO Nathan Newman New Republic's &c. Not Geniuses Ornicus Oxblog Pandagon Political State Report Political Theory Daily Review Queer Day Roger Ailes SCOTUS blog Talk Left TAPPED Tacitus This Modern World Tough Democrat Untelevised Volokh Conspiracy Washington Note X. & Overboard Magazines, Newspapers and Journals Boston Globe Ideas Boston Review Chronicle of Higher Education Common Dreams Dissent In These Times Mother Jones New York Review of Books New York Times Salon Slate The American Prospect The Nation The New Republic The Progressive Tikkun Tom Paine Village Voice Washington Monthly Capitol Hill Media ABC's The Note American Journalism Review Columbia Journalism Review CQ Daily Howler Donkey Rising The Hill Medianews National Journal NJ Hotline NJ Wake-up call NJ Early Bird NJ Weekly Political Wire Roll Call Spinsanity Search Search the DFP  |
|||||||
The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of Dartmouth College or the Dartmouth Free Press.