Jennifer Rubin "This week the president spoke about economic inequality. It is a problem to be sure, but it tends to blot out other types of inequality that are quite significant."
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"But there is a great mass of Americans are unplugged. There were about 240 million voting-age adults in 2012; only about 130 million votes were cast. Even among the 130 million who vote, there are millions who don’t know the name of a single cabinet member, never watch a talking head cable TV show and vote (maybe at most) once every four years.
"The plugged in are highly opinionated in most cases. They thrive on confrontation and drive much of the national debate. They’ve made politics into an esoteric subject with its own language. In doing so, they make politics angry, petty and somewhat incomprehensible — which are the reasons a great many Americans choose to unplug themselves. Political insiders sneer at “low information” voters, but in reality these are “low interest” voters who have decided to check out.
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"But there is a great mass of Americans are unplugged. There were about 240 million voting-age adults in 2012; only about 130 million votes were cast. Even among the 130 million who vote, there are millions who don’t know the name of a single cabinet member, never watch a talking head cable TV show and vote (maybe at most) once every four years.
"The plugged in are highly opinionated in most cases. They thrive on confrontation and drive much of the national debate. They’ve made politics into an esoteric subject with its own language. In doing so, they make politics angry, petty and somewhat incomprehensible — which are the reasons a great many Americans choose to unplug themselves. Political insiders sneer at “low information” voters, but in reality these are “low interest” voters who have decided to check out.
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