Caucus

Yesterday was our annual caucus in Iowa. We held our precinct caucus in Manchester. At the caucuses various candidates speak, write planks that we’d like on the Republican Platform, and select delegates for the county convention. This is democracy in action. One problem……no one shows up! We have 14 precincts in Delaware County and not one person from 3 precincts even showed up. I am in the Milo precinct. Our precinct could elect 11 delegates to the County Convention. We had only 7 in attendance. Of all the precincts in attendance (11) there were approx. 50 people there…… total! And twelve were from the Central committee, which are always there. I heard that the Democrate caucus was just as bad. So much for even caring about what goes on in your government. Too busy to spend even 2 hours, once a year, to participate in the selection of candidates, work on your parties platform or selecting who will represent you in the county convention. We were not surprised at the total attendance though. We even predicted it at the monthly county Republican central committee meeting a couple of weeks ago. I guess this is what makes this country great. You can ignore what’s going on in Government, pay no attention to who the candidates are or what they really stand for, have no interest in the what their policies are or how the policies will effect them…….really not give a rip about what’s going on in their country! But you can still vote (although intellectually you have no idea why you voted the way you did) and then you can complain very loudly when things aren’t going the way you’d like or better yet just blame Bush! What a country!