Chrisonomicon

Friday, October 25, 2002

I spent the better part of the morning canvassing for the Libertarian candidates in my area, walking door-to-door, my body being torn between the heat of the Indian summer sun and the chill of the brisk, mountain air, finally deciding that it was just right. Hiking through the hills of the surrounding neighborhoods seems to have beaten down my head cold for the moment, also.

Your vote's important, but really, it's not enough and I think that's a big reason why a lot of younger voters are being turned off to politics. We have enough to deal with while we struggle to survive in today's economy, and I know I wouldn't be able to devote every weekend to this sort of volunteer work. The more cynical part of me says that younger voters don't do more because we're so used to the immediacy of the point-click-result culture. Ballot voting is seen as slow and archaic, statistically our votes have little clout, and we don't get that instant poll results screen after punching out chads.