I agree!-----Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest - Intellectual Takeout (movie link will be posted at 12:30-Lunch video)

Indifferent Citizens Are No Better Than the Corrupt Government They Detest - Intellectual Takeout - Annie Holmquist

"It’s not much of a secret that I’m a fan of old movies...Let me explain the plot first...
Entitled A Stranger in Town, this 1943 film finds...John Josephus Grant, a grumpy old man who sits on the Supreme Court of the United States. 

All Grant wants is to get away from it all, so he takes a vacation and goes duck hunting near a small town, determined to keep his true identity quiet. 

The only problem is, this small town is exceedingly corrupt...

The best part, however, comes at the end when Justice Grant finally reveals his true identity to the mayor and his riot-inducing cronies, explaining why he allowed himself to get sucked into their affairs, even though he was only a duck-hunting stranger in town:

"...like all of you here, I am a citizen of this country. 

That is no little honor. 

Men have fought revolutions, have died to be called citizen. 

And as citizens, we carry a burning responsibility.
It means that, when we elect men to public office we cannot do it as lightly as we flip a coin. 

It means that after we’ve elected them we can’t sit back and say, ‘Our job is done. 

What they do now doesn’t concern us.’
That philosophy of indifference is what the enemies of decent government want...
The great liberties by which we live have been bought with blood...

I almost stood up and cheered in my living room after hearing that speech, for 80 years later, it still rings true...