Reply #13: Your son and mine as well as others may be influenced by Stewart but .....

[Minnesota Libra]

.....I venture to suggest there is so much more to it than that. My son, who now has a family and is of voting age used to tell me,

"What can I do. Our representatives never listen to the people. They will do as they please anyway."

Other times he used to say, "Mom, you're enough of a "conspiracy theorist" for the two of us and then some. Politics are not cool, Mom."

I hate to say it, but at least part of the problem is our own, the over 40 crowd. We've turned politics and service in general into a bad word, something to be avoided at all costs. Plus, we've changed politics into a money making venture that sacrifices honesty for the green back.

Example: We've got an all volunteer Military and many people view military service as something a person does ONLY if they have no other options. Instead of making it into something a young person does because they owe something to their countrymen and their country in general. Remember the days when a person was frowned on for NOT SERVING????

When and if we return politics and serving one's country into something that is viewed as paying back a debt we owe each other and owe our country, then and only then, will our young people start going into politics as a career.