WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Thoughts on why this election is so uninteresting By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2000 Without a doubt, this is the most uninteresting election year I can ever recall. The interest level of this campaign is lower than low; it is in the pits! Think about it: how many private yards do you observe to have political signs on them? Not many. How many "Vote for Bush" or "Vote for Gore" bumper stickers do you see? Not many. How many people even bothered to watch the national political conventions? Not many. It’s a boring campaign, to be sure. This obvious lack of interest is not because the various candidates are not working hard. Nothing has changed in that department. We are inundated with campaign commercials and advertisements. Campaign signs cover every highway intersection. Political propaganda is as ubiquitous as ever. The problem is, people are just not interested. As anyone can see, the general election this November will generate the lowest percentage voter turnout in history. The question is, why this indifference? There are several answers. For one thing, the presidential candidates themselves are uninspiring. Neither Bush nor Gore possesses charismatic qualities. They are about as exciting as watching grass grow. Plus, neither candidate has "turned on" his base. Gore is trying to both define himself and, at the same time, distance himself from Clinton (not an easy job). Many union members tell me they are not voting for Gore because of his support for NAFTA, GATT, the WTO and trade deals with China. Many of the leftist special interest groups (which comprise the base of the Democratic Party) believe Gore to be all talk and no action on many of their issues. Polling data suggests that Gore cannot even take his own home state of Tennessee for granted. That’s pretty pathetic. Bush, on the other hand, is riding the wave of "he’s better than Gore" to the White House. The truth is, most people are not voting for Bush; they are voting against Gore. That hardly makes for an enthusiastic campaign. Conservatives (which comprise the base of the Republican Party) are breathing a temporary sigh of relief because Bush picked pro-life Dick Cheney as his running mate. However, many will be holding their collective breath throughout his administration, as it is yet uncertain how committed Dubya will be to the conservative agenda. Building a "big tent" might sound good to CEOs and media moguls, but it does nothing to inspire grass roots laborers. Also, there is the feeling that on many issues there is little substantive difference between the two candidates. Their speeches are eerily similar. They both talk about saving Social Security and improving education. They both appear to be more interested in appeasing big corporate donors than aggressively pursuing policies that will turn the country around. The key distinction in this race is only one: Gore has the Clinton stain on him. That’s it. That’s enough. Clinton fatigue will give Bush the presidency. It will probably keep the Republicans in charge of both chambers of congress, which leads to another question: what will Republicans do after they assume control of the entire government? Probably not much, and that’s what people are nervously and quietly anticipating. If that’s true, one can only hope that it is the calm before the storm, a storm of grass roots activism that will take the course of the country out of the hands of the political parties and put it back in the hands of the people where it belongs. Well, one can hope. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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