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Shubert's Population Problems
There are three problems that Shubert associates with most of the population of America. Firstly, mass political disaffection which is the decline of trust in the government (pg.83). I think a good example of this is what is happening now with a new president. Especially, since he is always saying and doing different things than he promised. Most people of America are becoming untrusting of the government. Secondly, mass political ignorance is voters who are uninformed and are not able to form opinions on different policies. Again, I saw many examples of this during this past November election. I know people who were only voting for a specific party and not for what the candidate stood for. As for political apathy this means that people do
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