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Why People Stop Voting
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| Worst president ever. | |
| Not smart. | |
| A fool. | |
| That's just the stuff I remember. | |
| It was more. | |
| Oh, that's it? | |
| 27 million? | |
| Really? | |
| Down 36% from Trump-Clinton? | |
| Do you have an explanation for that? | |
| People just tired of politics? | |
| I don't know what other explanation there might be. | |
| Of course, you know, in a certain sense, I don't dismiss those people at all. | |
| See, I often ask about my own life, if I did not have the professional and moral obligation to comment on major items in the news, would I be following all those major items in the news? | |
| The answer is no. | |
| If you're new to my show, you should understand that I am not animated by politics. | |
| One of the many reasons I am sort of the opposite of the left. | |
| Politics does not give my life meaning. | |
| If it weren't for my belief, my certitude, that the left is an utterly destructive force in our society, I would be much more preoccupied with the things that I think people should be preoccupied. | |
| Great question. | |
| How do you make good people? | |
| The most important question any society can ask. | |
| At its best, that is what America would ask. | |
| So kids were raised with character education. | |
| There were obvious flaws, like in many cases, not all by any means, but in many cases, just an acceptance. | |
| Of racist ideas which were universal. | |
| It's not a defense of the ideas, it's a defense of the people. | |
| I hope that's clear. | |
| As I've given the example of vegetarianism, I would not be surprised if in 50 years a vast number of people are vegetarian. | |
| Will they look upon those of us who ate meat the way people look upon Racist. | |
| And if so, would that be fair? | |
| Well, you can't take anybody seriously or virtually anybody morally seriously from the early 21st century. | |
| They were meat-eaters. | |
| I'm not being cute. | |
| I believe that that is a perfect analogy. | |
| I'm not analogizing racism to meat-eating. | |
| I'm analogizing... | |
| present-day ethical sensitivities to earlier-day ethical sensitivity. | |
| So I'm merely commenting on the low number, relatively speaking, of people who watched it. | |
| That's why I've never argued, oh, everybody has an obligation to vote. | |
| I know that there are a lot of people who say that. | |
| I have... | |
| Generally understood that in a free society, the fact that a lot of people aren't voting is sort of, you know, they're just not involved politically because they have other concerns in life. | |
| Now, I vote. | |
| I've always voted. | |
| But I'm animated. | |
| I understand the issues. | |
| I don't want people who don't understand the issues to vote. | |
| Why is that good? | |
| Well, I have an answer to that, because people who don't understand the issues tend to vote in certain directions. | |
| I have another point to make in regard to the debate. | |
| I was thinking about debates that I heard when I was a very young kid, 12 years old, when... | |
| Kennedy and Nixon debated. | |
| No, I wasn't 12. I was 11. 11 years old, and the seriousness of that debate versus last night, it makes me sort of feel sad for young people. | |
| I feel sad for young people in many arenas. | |
| The irrational fears that are implanted in them. | |