Lindy Davidson

I’m sure everyone is dying to hear me talk about civics, but it’s my blog and you don’t get a vote!

When I was in 7th grade at Heath Middle School, my civics teacher Mr. Mabry taught us the definition of the word “civics” the first day of class.  This may be the only piece of valuable information I retained from 7th grade, but at least I remember that “civics is the study of the duties, rights and responsibilities of citizenship.”  This being an election year, and a particularly interesting one at that, I have been thinking a lot about citizenship and my duties, rights and responsibilities.  Unfortunately though, when I hear people talk, I seem to hear a lot about the rights, but very little about duties or responsibilities.  We are quite concerned with our rights to vote, choose, pursue, spend, save, speak, express, etc.  But when was the last time anyone asked us about our duties or responsibilities?  Do we even know what those are anymore?  I would love to hear someone address it.  Anyone?  Senator McCain?  Senator Obama?  Joe the Plumber?  Can someone please remind us what our duties and responsibilities are before we sink any deeper into a quagmire of narcissism.  Anyone?  Anyone?  Bueller?