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Thomas Jefferson once suggested that we should have a revolution every ten years to keep the government in line. Yep. Thomas Jefferson said that. Thomas Jefferson who had to take the presidential oath to protect and preserve the constitution and defend the country against enemies both foreign and domestic. Apathy is our enemy, and one must ask the question 'When did this start?'.

The answer is, I believe, in the 1950's when there was an oversight committee into morals, communism, and pretty much any and everything that we held personal and private. Sure, there were people who were working toward civil rights and I'm not downplaying that revolution, but that was the start. When people became too content in their two car garage and ranch style house with a chicken in every pot. Then the 60's happened. For every person who was actually trying to fight for change there was an idiot hippie who was just doped up and regurgitating what the people who were actually working were telling them. The 70's gave birth to a generation of jaded individuals who embraced apathy as a warm blanket to protect them from the pain of reality. The 80's and 90's showed the very vocal but completely inactive children of the flower children yelling about injustice but not really doing anything for change. And here we are in the here and now and what has changed? The world around us seems to have gotten worse in violating the constitution and our civil liberties and yet though we may complain, we don't do anything. As the old adage goes, 'actions speak louder than words'. And we as a people aren't acting. When there are 50,000,000 persons aged 18-29 (the youth vote) most of which are pretty vocal about their beliefs and only 7,000,000 of them voted in the last presidential election, there's a problem. There is apathy. There is not spirit of revolution. And this makes me cry.

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