Word: civics
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...Comeback Kid running on the adrenaline of one final campaign and overcoming flawed and divided opposition. It will be a great individual victory for him (perhaps his greatest--who would have thought a year ago that he would escape from this mess?), but it will be a massive civic loss...
Meanwhile, most Americans have a strong dislike for non-religious people; only 18 percent of Americans would allow atheists the basic right to assemble in a community's civic auditorium. But somehow, perhaps by a miracle, the nefarious liberal elites still manage to repress religion and exclude it from the political dialogue and the legislative process...
Still, there may be a silver lining to the Patriots' departure. Perhaps Finneran's opposition to a plush deal for Kraft signals that, finally, civic leaders are beginning to rethink the policy of corporate appeasement that has brought us to this sorry state...
...much do Americans value the right to vote? Pundits and politicians have not yet finished arguing whether the 38 percent turnout in this month's elections was good or bad, whether it showed a new trend of civic involvement or a gross apathy to political life. Perhaps, however, the true test of how much Americans value the right to vote is not how often we exercise it ourselves but how willing we are to deny it to others...
...know we should vote. We understand what our civic obligations are and what government "of the people, by the people and for the people" means. Yet finding a compelling argument to move us from "should vote" to actually voting is tough. Guilt, by itself, is a weak motivator because it fails us if there are other things we feel more guilty about not doing. For example, one could rationalize: "They might have died on the beaches at Normandy for my right to vote, but I'm going to fail if I don't write this paper...