Reply #1: They have no investment in what's going on. Or, better stated, [View All]

they haven't figured out that they do, or soon will, have an investment in what's going on. But because it doesn't directly affect them now, they don't care.

The big difference between now and the Vietnam-era protests was the draft. If your own sweet little ass is on the line, you start thinking hard about what's happening outside your immediate world. I am not in favor of reinstituting the draft, but if that happened you'd see an instant and dramatic change in the political involvement of college students. I was in college during the late '60s, and with the exception of the football jocks and the el-ed majors we were ALL involved up to our eyeballs in politics and protests and demonstrations.

But good for you for being involved. Keep up the good work and keep trying to educate others. I know there are other younger people who are paying attention, but it's disheartening to go to an antiwar rally these days and almost everybody there is an old fart like me.