The easiest thing that can and should be done is for every American who is eighteen and over to register to vote. If enough citizens registered, such self-appointed moralists, censors and Harper Valley Hypocrites who are misserving us as elected officials would be msuch easier to vote out of office.
Like any other parasite, censors thrive where we are most vulnerable. Apathy is a vulnerability (even an Achilles Heel) in which censorship can easily infest. Apathy is one of America's (and the world's) biggest problems. When we are indifferent about elections and the political process,we deserve to be served by politicians who put themselves first, the lobbyists and special interests second, and their constituents last. Censorship thrives when those affected by it don't care to do anything about it.
[The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and later was part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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