It becomes increasingly clear that this election will determine the direction this country will take in the coming decades. The impact on policies that affect the lives of people with disabilities is going to be enormous. But the political campaigning has stirred little interest so far, among disabled or non-disabled citizens. No news in that. The voter turnout trend has been headed south for years.
Some folks are too busy making ends meet to get involved in political campaigning.
Economic survival crowds out other activity. Especially in the mass society from which people feel outcast with no power and little opportunity to be heard. Like that kid I once was, some people stand around asking others to do the work for them. And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must make it because his conscience tells him that it is right. People with disabilities proclaimed our worth as people and citizens.