For the first time EVER in the history of US, people voted for a candidate through emotion instead of logic.
Ok, Vance- I am going to have to go out on a limb here and disagree. I don't think this is like the first time ever in the course of US history American voters have demonstrated poor decision making skills in an election.
We now have a brand new formula of winning the White House.
No, I think we have the same one. It just has a new face on it, and this time it has huge ears... but the underlying equation is still pretty much the same:
Stupid Impressionable Voters + Special Interest Media + Democracy = Large Cesspool
When you have the liberal media, state of California/NY plus 96% of black voters vote for "a" candidate, even if the candidate is none-black, he's going to win
Weak minded people tend to be very impressionable. For example, idiots listen to radio talk show hosts whom are also idiots, as they were hired because idiots could relate to them. Why are presidential campaigns rittled with BS TV ads, pundits, editorials, and spin?
Because it works.
The symptoms are that many will only vote along party lines as it makes it nice and easy for them- no different than touting their favorite commercial brand. Yet others vote for all of the wrong reasons like the "economy".... because they slept during history class and think that the position of Chief Commanding officer and Chief Wall Street Treasurer & Futurist are some how synonymous. Etc... Etc...
Look. Statistics prove that most voters don't even do any research for the people that will affect them the most: local leaders, justices, auditors, state commissioners, etc... so why on earth would anyone be surprised that a bunch of idiots voted Gregoir in again... let alone Obama? Let's look at history. What does it say that so many people really believed that career politicians like Hillary Clinton were out to do them a favor? I'm thinking that Paris Hilton, kinda has a real shot as the new NASA administrator now? As he said, in America anything is possible.
To my point? !@#$ people are morons. If a glimmer of logic prevailed... the very best thing the idiots which comprise the "general public" could do is to acknowledge that they have no idea WTF they are talking about, have not one clue as to what the day to day duties many of these positions entail, shut up, and defer the hire to someone that is truly qualified to evaluate someone for the given position.
Unfortunately, most simply do the complete opposite.
Most people are ignorant to the point whereas they *think* they know what is best for society: and instead put similar minded idiots routinely in positions of extreme, if not absolute authority- where they often do a lot of damage to innocent people.
I project that this will continue for several hundred more years, until the human brain crosses some significant critical evolutionary threshold. In the meantime, we will all live to marvel in the consequences of stupid voters decisions...
..... universal health care, ever increasing taxes, larger government at every level, loss of privacy, lower quality of life, etc... that is the hall mark not of our brilliant democracy.. but the legacy of socialism- the inevitable full circle outcome of a one/two party system that has taken our country completely down the drain inside of a few decades.
If there is one thing I've learned... what is popular is seldom what is right. Your post suggests that your genuine underlying complaint is against American democracy... and believe me there is nothing wrong with that.
