Reply #12: Kids approaching draft age have it tough--they have to worry about [View All]

the draft, and here in NY they live with the fear of a terrorist attack. Kids today seem so much more politically aware than those of the past couple of decades.

Perhaps I'm trying too hard to find a silver lining to the very dark clouds of a bush second-term, but I think bush will end up creating a generation of people that are anti-war, socially tolerant and compassionate, deeply concerned about the environment, and open to people of different cultures and nations. Out of the ruins of bush's second term will rise a better society.

When Clinton won in 1992, I was very happy that my children would not spend the early years of their life under a President I despised (like Reagan and bush sr.) I was tired of always opposing our government, and I didn't want my young children to be burdened with my cynical attitude.

But now that my kids are older, there is one good thing to come out of a bush second-term. bush will give this generation a political education he does not mean to give. My children know not to be politically apathetic. They are learning politics is a continual process in which they must be engaged if they want to keep the diverse, tolerant, thoughtful, caring society they have grown up in. They are learning that great, malicious powers stand between them and the world they want to live in, and these powers can only be restrained if people rise up in great numbers to oppose them.