Voter Apoplexy Not Apathy: Disgust Not Disinterest

From: Atlanta Inquirer | Date: August 29, 1998 | Copyright information

Atlanta Inquirer
08-29-1998
Voter Apoplexy Not Apathy: Disgust Not Disinterest

The Black Leadership Forum hosted a meeting of activists and advocates not long ago in the nation's capital to address the drought in voter turnout in a major election last month was about one out of five voters. I have tried to listen carefully to citizens across the nation on the issue we label apathy and I am convinced that the causal factor is more apoplexy than apathy, more disgust than disinterest...in the political process. They are sad, mad, and weary of special prosecutors and specious, captious ...

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