A good many people come to Alaska to 'get away from it all'. In many cases I suspect that getting away includes having to worry about what the government is doing, both in Washington and in their own state. (It could be that is one reason for the low voter turnout, not just in Alaska but everywhere in the country.)

Oddly enough, Alaskans elect some of the oddest people- talk about reactionary. Maybe it has to do with the parental vs. peer thing a previous thread linked to, maybe it's simply that they don't want to have to do any thinking about it at all.

On occasion I get the urge to do the same- get away, that is, not the parental thing. The world seems to lurch and bumble along about the same whether I know about it or I don't. Maybe it's true that no one should read each newspaper until one year later- and then you'd see how many things you have survived?