[speaker001:] all right well we'll go ahead and start with you and your opinion
[speaker002:] well um in and I think what it is in this country is that we have this uh despite all the complaints we have about government we essentially have a great deal of faith that despite uh any election things really aren't going to change dramatically
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] based on any given election and there really no one gets all excited over politics um over the the I mean you think of some countries where they've changed uh um you know it'll have a a coup or some ridiculous form of government there may change uh every few years like for an example would be the governments South American governments
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but here it's it's very stable and I there's
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] nothing really to get all that excited over but maybe people should get a little excited and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and make some changes
[speaker001:] yeah I think I think that has a lot to do with it like you said you know unless there's something really controversial no one ever votes
[speaker002:] right right yeah people will vote presidential elections
[speaker001:] just um-hum
[speaker002:] um you know a local election that may have some great import but uh you know over all people don't have a whole lot to to worry about when it comes to politics
[speaker001:] yeah I think I think that has a lot to do with it that and they're just lazy kind of
[speaker002:] yeah they're that
[speaker001:] I for instance I haven't voted since I was eighteen just like I'm twenty two now and I don't live at I live out of the state that I'm registered to vote in and it's just and like you said unless there's something really important I just don't take the time
[speaker002:] yeah well that that's just it I'm I'm twenty four and I'm in the military
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh I'm a um registered to vote in Pennsylvania and I only voted once it was in uh well the last presidential election
[speaker001:] uh-huh right
[speaker002:] you know and that was just because you know it's it's too much of a hassle to get the absentee ballot
[speaker001:] exactly
[speaker002:] or even to to drive back there which is what I did that time I actually went and visited my folks and voted the same time but uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] um in my position I well in addition to that and the local political scene I don't know enough about it anymore to even feel that my vote means anything
[speaker001:] right and for me I'm just afraid
[speaker002:] because I don't know the the candidates um
[speaker001:] right exactly I'm afraid I'd vote for somebody who I didn't even you know agree with
[speaker002:] right yeah
[speaker001:] just because I wanna vote or whatever
[speaker002:] right right but I I think um that's all things that that it's all my own laziness though
[speaker001:] yeah oh I agree that's probably same thing
[speaker002:] because first of all I should take the time to find out about the candidates I probably should talk to my mom and dad and who do live there and get the feeling for what uh for what they are you know have been doing and uh or for what what they feel the candidates are doing and uh um maybe do a little looking into it myself it's not like any of this is any big secret
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but it's just a question of taking the time and it's they're
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] higher priorities right
[speaker001:] right you know I think it's really interesting too like with this the latest election in Louisiana where there was the guy who had been part of the Ku Klux Klan how much yeah how much interest that brought and how many people
[speaker002:] right David Duke yeah yeah that was interesting there was quite a few people in this area that had contributed to his campaign
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I'm in upstate New York and this is kind of a redneck area what the local newspapers um printed they somehow got a list of all of Duke's contributors
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] and they printed a list in the newspaper of everybody that gave money to that campaign
[speaker001:] oh my
[speaker002:] you wanna talk about getting getting even with them you know that was I thought that was beautiful that's justice
[speaker001:] right yeah well I think it's interesting how it takes something like that though
[speaker002:] what's that
[speaker001:] I think it's interesting how it takes something like that to get people on edge about ah politics
[speaker002:] yeah yeah oh yeah yeah you know people you think about having somebody uh somebody like that in power and the you know and that shocks them all but then um flip side of that is the same people go around um harboring their own racist racist practices and race race you know you ask those same people um how they treat
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] people and all that and you probably would not get a very favorable answer out of them
[speaker001:] right yeah I agree
[speaker002:] but the idea the merit the thought of somebody who publicly was a member of the Ku Klux Klan is pretty repulsive being in a position of power like that
[speaker001:] yeah right
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] well is there anything you think we can do to make it better or to uh
[speaker002:] what we can do to make it better right that that's hard because um I thought in the last or not not this last year's election but the one a year ago that they were gonna that there was gonna be some serious turn around of the incumbents and all that the people are finally fed up
[speaker001:] uh-huh