The Push For Civic Responsibility Is Only Window Dressing

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By Carol Morgan

The first installment in the AJ’s {Lubbock Avalanche-Journal} series on civic responsibility was disappointing and shamefully skewed to right-sided thinking. If you want to encourage the citizenry to show more civic duty, first of all, you must define what civic responsibility entails. And then of course, you need to ferret out the real reasons why people fail to participate in it.

Civic responsibility is more than just voting. It’s obeying the laws, paying your taxes, maintaining your property, serving on a jury, donating time to your preferred causes, and most importantly, objecting to injustices that occur in your community.

The problem is this: People don’t rush out to be good civic servants when the systems and institutions are inherently corrupt. People will not line up to run for office, to work hard for change, or even vote when the results have been decided in advance.

The disingenuous rallying cry for getting out the vote, by FORMER Texas Secretary of State John Steen, was supreme irony! It was almost laughable. The best method for getting more Texans to vote would be for the Texas Republican Party to stop their efforts in voter suppression and gerrymandering voter maps.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/carol-morgan/2014-01-06/push-civic-responsibility-only-window-dressing .

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1. Oh my. She sounds annoyed.