BlueBoy911's Blog

"We as the youth are standing up and saying this president does not represent us."

So i read this quote in a story on the site and it made me think about some things that i don't normally think about... It's about some folks at an Anti-Bush rally who got arrested and such...

It's amazing that our country still functions when It seems that half of our government officials only represent half of the people and half of them only vote for the half that halfway represents the portion of the second half of the first group who only halfway vote... errr, ummm.  what?  

Anyway, only a few people are making a stand for this seemingly massive case of under-representation.  Does that make everyone else the quiet, disgruntled type or just lazy and complacent?  Maybe the tough love part of living in a democracy is that you have to be mature and learn to compromise when things aren't going how you like?  And maybe Bush has crossed the line by about 18 miles? Voting seems to work but it leaves a lot of people unhappy.  What do they do about it?

So anyway, maybe the passionate youth from the above quote is just learning something that the rest of us have known for a while...  that most people are misrepresented once in a while.  Maybe we're just numb to it...? Does the squeaky wheel thing really work and is it it worth getting arrested for? Is there a fine for civil disobediance by the way?

My opinioin... i'll have to think about it a bit...  be back soon i suppose.