They should care because the voting system is the only true power they have to make things different for themselves and for their children.
It seems to me that the primary elections are more important than the general elections. In the primaries, the rotten, selfish, crooked politicians can be stopped at the door. And since those ill-intentioned politicians know that the lay people are generally uninterested in the political game, and that they wouldn't acTUALLy research the candidates or incumbent for voting records or criminal investigations, they take advantage of that by spending tons of taxpayers money on hi-quality advertisements and busloads of street teams pushing printed materials to sway the vote their way. And it works!
But, as we should know already, not everything that glitters is gold. The candidates with decent intentions, little money and even less local government support are shuffled along (usually, the ones who raise families in the community). Meanwhile, those with superhero facades of saving the community from their woes are given the green lite thru the door - onto the next phase of the competition. It's disappointing.
Go to thomas.gov. Become familiar with government... or start with local government.
As President Barack Obama said, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
kM
