Now that Ross Perot has dropped from the presidential race, many voters who backed him for his outsider status are once again disenchanted with our country`s political system. I hear again and again of former Perot supporters who now refuse to take part in the election process.
I would like to remind these potential voters that the reason for their disaffection may very well be derived from this type of apathy. With only about 50 percent voter participation in the last few elections, it is no wonder high-level politicians in Washington have lost touch with America. Only by voting, even if only for what may be perceived as the lesser of two evils, can we begin the gradual process of selecting, in an almost Darwinian sense, politicians of higher moral and representative caliber.
Abstention in protest is effectively an endorsement of the very status quo that Ross Perot invested so much of his own energy, and that of his supporters, to challenge.
