I'm a charter subscriber to your newsletter and grateful for your voice, crying in the wilderness of the liberal media. I have never felt more strongly about any of your statements than I do about your recent article, "The Era of Apathy."

You seem to be blaming the public for not doing anything about the corruption in the White House and in the media. What can we do? If we are angry about it, who will report it. (Who indeed, if you don't?) If we write letters, who will read them, and to what effect? If we vote Republican (and even elect a Republican congress) what will our elected representatives do about Bill's crimes? (Incidently, I think Dole and Kemp lost precisely because they didn't do or say anything about Bill's crimes. They had the podium. They were in the spotlight. Why didn't they at least mention the fact the Bill is an accused felon, sexual harasser, adulterer and liar? Would you vote for someone so obviously without conviction as to be too polite to mention these accusations? Talk about elitism; we all wondered who's side they were really on.) Now we have a Republican Congress, and even THEY won't do anything about it. This is the first time I've felt discouraged; now that we have one whole branch of the Federal Government under Republican (at least marginally conservative) leadership and even they won't do anything to turn this situation around. And then YOU blame US.

Or maybe you are falling for the media's habit of telling us what we think and how we feel. Just because the media are saying, "Bill's no different from everybody else," and "Nobody really cares," that doesn't mean any thinking citizen agrees, or even that the majority of Americans believe it. The media is under the control of atheists and liars; that's bad enough, but they are self righteous about it. They mix opinion with news, they spin everything, they state their opinions as fact and they claim piously that all the rest of us agree with them. I stopped paying very much attention to the media years ago because they don't represent me and I won't spend one dime that will end up in their coffers, but the result is that I'm often taken by surprise when I hear how far they have come and how much success they are having in their effort to mold and control public perception. If there is apathy in America, it was spawned by the liberal press; but I don't think it runs as wide or as deep as they (or you) say it does. I don't believe them when they say that nobody cares. And I don't think for a moment that a few misguided callers to your show, defending Bill and parroting the media line, represent how the rest of us feel.

I don't think we're indifferent; I think we're discouraged. I think most of us are feeling disheartened about the future of America. I think most of us are wondering if we can ever wrest control of our country away from these people who stand only for self-service, irresponsibility, socialism, atheism and the pursuit of pleasure at the cost of happiness. I think most of us wonder if the TRUTH will ever again be common knowledge, if our children or our children's children will even know who the Founding Fathers were, know that they were inspired of God to create the greatest civilization in the history of the world, know that it was the God of Abraham who inspired them and that it was upon His laws that our laws were once based.

I still hope we will win. I still think that God is on our side. I hope you will not lose hope or blame honest Americans for what the liberals and media have done. Edmund Burke said that evil prevails when good men do nothing.

Someone else said that if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. I don't think that many of us are fooled. I think that most of us are wondering what more we can do, where else (besides our homes and our own businesses) we can make a stand. Who will listen, and who in power will act?

Frank

Reasons for the Apathy

Guys and gals,

Its so simple, for the most part. It's because the American people get their instructions from the media. If the media doesn't tell them that it's important...they don't think it's important. If the media tells them that the "flea sex study" is important, many will think it's important. Stupid as it sounds, it's probably true.

The reason so many people vote Democrat is because the media and other historically ignorant people have repeatedly and erroneously called this nation a democracy. IT IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, IT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.

THE CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT... ONLY!

Jimw

Era of Apathy

It isn't that Americans are apathetic. It is that the politicians have gained greater control of the system. Just as businessmen seek to stabilize their businesses, so the Democratic politicians sought to stabilize their's. The Republicans upset this by winning the majority, but are attempting to use the same tactics.

It isn't malevolence, it is simply their desire to reliably forecast their own markets. When the American people stop viewing the politicians as leaders and start viewing them for what they are, service providers, maybe we can reclaim our government. The role of "Leader" is not suitable for our system because it gives rise to such stupidity as redistribution of wealth, overtaxation, drug prohibition and other abuses of power. WE DON'T NEED TO BE CONTROLLED! We need to have our freedom defended and our infrastructure maintained, THAT'S ALL.

David

Apathy?, not really!!

I know that this may sound weird. In reality most Americans are like me. We are so busy working long and hard hours to pay the taxes, have the meager conveniences that life provides us and raising a decent family unity. When we get home we don't want to deal with the Clintons of this world. This is a truth. I deal with the enemies of moral values, (this is meant to be good vs bad), when elections come by. It is then that I exercise my constitutional right to vote. Always hoping that many Americans with the same ideas, will do as I do.

One of the most serious problems that I see as a Republican is that we do not not have solidarity and union with our party and their leaders. The "Demoncrats" as I called them only have values when it affects their livelyhood and their morals are only convenietly displayed when it provides them an opportunity to look good in front of the world; however, one thing remains true with them: THEY WILL STAND BEHIND THEIR CANDIDATES EVEN WHEN THEY LIE. This is the only way that they get their people elected and then they can impose their agenda by majority vote or block any other agenda that is contrary to their beliefs. When I think of the way they blocked all the congressional hearings and defended/provided answers to the witnesses by way of hints as how to answer, I get sick!! I am a firm believer that what goes around, comes around.

Clinton and his hordes of followers will receive the due punishment that only GOD can dish out. Meanwhile, I will continue to support my party and their candidates. If I elect a bad candidate then in the next election I will exercise my vote and elect a better one.

These days--and in this political climate--treason is just another word to most people. I would venture to guess that over 50% of U.S. population do not believe or even care that treason is an offense, by which any citizen and/or those holding office can be prosecuted for and jailed. This society, can now claim the dubious distinction of being and thinking anything goes! And if you get caught, prison time is a badge of honor. Websters Collegiate Dictionary defines the meaning of treason as Treason: The betrayal of a trust: 2)the offense of attempting by over acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance---

Now since our draft doger in chief has problems of defining IS, he would probably have problems with the word overt, and say that he is not guilty because it was not overt. However, there is another word that fits this type of behavior--SUBVERSION, SUBVERTING, AND GOING UNDERGROUND TO DO THE DIRTY DEEDS.

WEBSTERS Collegiate Dictionary defines SUBVERSION as follows: 1) a systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a government or political system by persons working secretly within the country involved SUBVERT: 1)to overturn or overthrow from the foundation, 2)to pervert or corrupt by an undermining of morals, allegiance or faith. The foregoing seems to be the motto of the far left, and most Demos.

Why Voters are Disinterested!

Voters know their vote is watered down by the electorial college!

Let's make this election interesting; run an online popular vote. Fix it so you could only vote once. Designate a week for the online election so everyone would have enough time to get online and vote. Run it along with the regular election and compare the outcome!

I bet it would generate more interest than 'Who wants to be a Millionaire'.

Nancy in Orlando, Florida

Apathy

I think the main reason Americans are apathetic about everything is because they don't know what's going on. Not most of them, anyway. Most of us are products of a school system that indoctrinated us to a kind of quasi-Marxism, American-style. That indoctrination is reinforced everyday by the media. There is nothing to counteract it, as there would be if religion played more than a lip service role in their lives.

Weaned on situational ethics and humanistic materialism, and undereducated in economics and how the political system was set up to work in this country, they see nothing wrong with more and more of their money being taken from them in taxes to support yet another "needy" group, or their rights being frittered away in the name of one cause or another. You would be amazed at just how ignorant most people, even college students!, are of how the economy works! The churches bear at least an equal share of the blame in this ignorance; they are supposed to be the beacon for men, but instead they hide behind the separation of church and state to safeguard their tax exemptions (which they are eventually going to lose, anyway) while keeping their mouths shut to their people about what's happening in the United States! Most Americans, sadly to say, would rather have a full belly and bank account than be free.

apethetic realism / politically correct

Till now I sit and wait,
wondering how to live the date.
Not knowing where my path will lead,
or whose advice I should heed.

I often feel as though, I am caught in a whirlwind, and can feel it blow. The days and moments ..rush.. by in a blur, without hearing even one kind word.

I distress over the direction that the world has taken, knowing that for our transgression, a life was taken. We try to believe that we will find our way, but the only way is still today, one and the same.

I am truly convinced that there is a way back from the chasm of immorality and political correctness that we have allowed to advance in our society. Ever heard the phrase "the truth hurts"? Let us examine it for a moment. A conscience is a gift that lets us know that the things we do are wrong. Guilt is a necessary associate of the conscience, as it is the manifestation of your conscience on your soul. The object of political correctness is to allow someone to go outside the allowable limits of a civilized society and not be subject to the ridicule that would cause guilt, thereby releasing you of your conscience.

I am not politically correct. I have no intention of standing by and watching as the world turns its' back on every shred of backbone and morality that is necessary for the world to continue.

Imagine if you can a very simple world. One in which an apple is an apple, a homosexual is a homosexual, and a tangelo is a fruit that has been crossbred. In a world of definite absolutes, there are definite rights and wrongs. There are definite aberrations of a plan, a plan for civilization that is so simple we can not see the intertwinings, yet so complex we can not fathom the intricacies.

Imagine what it would take for a civilization to progress. Not only technologically, but spiritually, monetarily, and in every other method of measurement you could establish for a society to be weighed against. What rules and laws would be necessary to govern the masses and ensure prosperity? If you were wise enough to govern a world, what laws would you give it?

What human conditions will eventually lead to the fall of morality and the ability to be a self governed people? What rules of the basic human spirit have we recently decided are unnecessary in government? Devotion, honesty, integrity, morality, reliability, honor. Are any of these present in our government right now? A better question would be: Are any of these present in our country or citizens? If so, isn't it time to demand it from our leaders, or replace them with people of whom these basic characteristics are part of.

Abe Lincoln said that the doctrine of the schoolhouse in one generation will be the policy of the government in the next. I agree. I feel like I am trapped in a country that feels no obligation to its citizens, and is being ran by a dictatorship of bureaucracy. We are coming frighteningly close to socialism, and if left on our current path soon the people will be unable to regain the government that was established for the people, of the people, and by the people.

Long live the campaign for the advancement of truth, and the fight for liberty.

Semper Fidelis,

Andrew

Maybe the American people are apathetic because all the issues that face them in the dawn of the twentieth century (e.g. social security, medicare, education) are incredibly, incredibly boring. These issues keep being recycled over and over again at every election, generating circular arguments on both sides. Who wouldn't get tired of listening to politicans, reporters, and talk show hosts banter back and forth about them?

Lewis