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We've Got Issues is designed as a wake-up call. It is also a primer on the pressing political and social issues of the United States and a reaction to a disturbing fact: young people don't vote. This isn't actually unique to Generation X, but the rap is that today's twenty- and thirtysomethings are better versed in the relative merits of cell-phone plans than in how a bill becomes a law. As Bagby puts it, "The 'Bill' we love is Gates, not Clinton." Of course, that "we" doesn't include those she calls "McJobbers" (pace Douglas Coupland): "The overly pierced, drooling checkout counter operators who freak out when your cereal box won't scan." They don't vote either, by the way.
Bagby is by turns importuning, chastising, flip, and sarcastic. She upbraids politicians, the media, and the apathetic nonvoter. Her patter is stuffed with facts, exhortations, and pointed questions; this is politics-to-go, pitched at a generation typed as seeking instant gratification with style. Who has time to read the paper, let alone the Statistical Abstract of the United States? Bagby has done the work and distilled it. Put down your PalmPilot and your PlayStation, just for a second, she pleads, "get real" and get involved. The next election is but moments away. --J. Riches
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