Last night Bill Clinton—DNC arithmetician, saxophone player extraordinaire, and author of 101 Creative Uses for a Cigar—appeared on the Daily Show, calling for more honesty and straight talk in politics (except of course when it comes to the minutia of sexual semantics).
For all my faults with Clinton, the interview was a powerful one: “The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look a the evidence.”
Ryan Morgan wrote an article two days ago about why we should vote in this coming election, raising the question of how the students at this supposedly activist university could say such statements as “I’m not that into politics.”
In reality, I think the causes of apathy among the student body are pretty clear. As I wrote about last week, when you look at politics from what we deem to be an educated, rational perspective, it’s pretty depressing. Politics these days is about ideology, not evidence.
The key for us, as students, is to not be turned off. Instead we need to find constructive solutions to make the present political situation less of a clusterfuck.
