It's pretty easy to feel disenfranchised by a political system that talks about you as an "immigrant" or, worse, an "alien".
With the protests escalating again, I am pretty tired of seeing the city's young and disenfranchised fight each other amid an extreme housing shortage created by 30 to 40 years of NIMBYism (or "Not-In-My-Backyard-ism") from the old wealth of the city and down from the peninsula suburbs.
Unfortunately, it's a pretty common pattern to label an economically disadvantaged, politically disenfranchised group as dumb.
American Splendor has, in its sarky and diffident way, some pretty serious things to say about the disaffected and the disenfranchised in American society, alienated from their jobs and their lives.
I think it's a pretty universal thing -- feeling like the outsider, feeling like the disenfranchised person who marches to the beat of a different drum.
Now, we can vote for Obama and undo that nasty history which is more or less over, and even if there are places where black voters are disenfranchised, well, no nation's perfect, but America comes pretty darn close.
My generation feels disenfranchised".
You just hate the disenfranchised".
Women were completely disenfranchised".
And people feel disenfranchised.
