An Uneducated Electorate?

It's called the 'mob mentality'. People are, in general, too lazy and self absorbed to do the research and work necessary to make an informed decision in the voting booth. Instead they rely on the pundits, the talking heads and the propaganda to make the decisions for them, never realizing the extent of their folly.

"Polls say..." cry the headlines and people follow like vacant-faced sheep falsely believing that they must adhere to the will of the majority as determined by self-interested pollsters. The main trouble is that people BELIEVE the garbage spewed at us from all sides and, in their egotistical inertia, fail to use the one thing they have to decipher anything even remotely resembling the truth - their brain.

The American public isn't STUPID. It's LAZY. It lets self-interested parties tell them what to think and how to vote simply by appealing to the most basic of motivations. The politician or ballot issue with the most appealing catch-phrase wins. The sound-bite is the whole meal of thought for the average voter because they're too inert to get off their lazy butts and think for themselves. The truly sad part is they think, by listening to the same propaganda and thinking about it not at all that it somehow magically conveys wisdom in their choices when they don't realize it's ALL propaganda in the first place.

It doesn't. It never did.

And so we get mediocre choices and power-hungry politicians by the score because of it. God forbid the American voter actually gets motivated to explore the issues and learn about the candidates and do their own thinking for a change. American politics as we know it today couldn't survive it. The one thing a politician fears the most: An informed voter. They want voters who would rather feed from the teat of ignorance, to lazy to search for their own sustenance and swallowing all the drivel and BS the politicians hand out.

But I don't see the average American voter ever getting the motivation to do anything that requires real thinking, let alone in time for the next election. it's just too easy for them to let the politicians do their thinking for them instead of doing it themselves.

Fatesrider of CA 2:00AM July 24, 2008