POLITICS THEN AND
NOW.
The corruption issue, its magnitude, and how voters
unwittingly support it, remains a frustration. “There are none so blind as
those who will not see.”
I’m currently reading a biography of Andrew Jackson, our
nation’s sixth president. Politics were as dirty then as now with opponents
attacking the virtue of Jackson’s wife, Rachel. It seems they married before
her divorce from her previous husband was complete, a technicality unknown to
her and Jackson. What interests me is that voters of that time were primarily
motivated by the positions of candidates on issues of real importance such as
States’ rights and a national bank.
Today’s voters have to be satisfied with character
assassinations and an avoidance of real issues, many, if not most, look for
‘what’s in it for me?’
Not long ago, our nation’s young people played an important
role in civil rights and getting us out of Vietnam. Today? Hello?
Joe Bakewell
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