I wish 60 million trafficked Indian people got the Western attention one Indian elephant has

[daredtowork]

4. I don't understand why people blow off the difficult stuff

I've noticed it even here on DU. If you post a funny cartoon or a graphic, a lot of people will recommend the post. But if you're talking about hard subjects like racism, discrimination against women, people living in poverty, people still living in slavery - it's hard to get your posts recommended. Those posts get a lot of views, but they don't get recommended.

In real life polls I've withheld my vote from parcel taxes I didn't think a huge priority: when I withhold my vote, and the measure doesn't get passed, that's me, as a voter, sending a message.

When a few hundred people view, yet refrain from recommending a post about slavery...yet can't up-vote a post about in-house bickering fast enough, it really makes me wonder.

I would like to point out a simple idea of what means to be a Democrat:

A Democrat is someone who builds civilization by enabling the citizens who will uphold the Democracy.