Reply #49: My thoughts at 18 [View All]

[rocktop15]

As I was browsing the forums, this post jumped out at me. I'm 18 and a freshman in college. For the past two years I've been reading book after book on current events and the like. The main reason I got into politics was because I live in southeast Tennessee where there are more ignorant sheep than anywhere else in America.

My parents are strong Democrats and I originally had the simple idealogy thought that "Republicans.......bad.....Democrats.........good." After studying up on current issues, I can phrase that sentence more eloquently now than, say, two years ago. But back to the topic, it irks me beyond belief that my age group does not vote (and the ones that do mainly voted Bush.) In the past 3 months, I have bombarded two of my friends email boxes with link after link of horrible things that Bush and Co. has done or said. That's two votes that Bush will not be receiving. I donated ten dollars to the DNC. I pledged some money to Dean earlier, but now think I will be giving that to Clark.

A buddy of mine asked me..."Why do you care?" I asked him a series of questions such as "Do you want to be paying off the deficit when we're fifty years old?" He said no. I then stated "Well, there are things you and I can do to lessen the burden that is going to affect us." I try to do unto others, as I would want them to do unto me. I belive voting is one of the greatest things you can do to help America out.