by Anthony Bradley [Acton Institute]
With
only a few weeks to Election Day, racial politics has reared its
pathetic head as pundits attempt to decipher poll numbers and audience
comments at political rallies. It seems silly to imagine that adults in
America may vote along racial lines but it should come as no surprise.
Many people on the ideological margins of society vote irrationally. In
fact, voting along racial lines says less about racism than it does
about the lack of mature civic responsibility among voters who are
indifferent to the nation’s common good.
While using race as an ultimate criterion for supporting or
rejecting a candidate is equally unjustifiable and shallow, the
possibility of doing exactly that is one of the trade-offs of being
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