State of the Scheduled Programming

If a government gives a vote to every one of it's citizens and favors an informed vote just as much as an ignorant one, the government will be a reflection of it's least capable citizens (assuming everyone votes). Cornel West once said in a discussion that black people will vote for Obama because they believe him to be the best choice and not because they're black. I don't think that's correct at all- and it doesn't have anything to do with the black vote. If people voted for who they really believed in instead of the lesser of two possible evils, we'd have revolution in a day.

What we have is a great mass of stupid, uninformed people that shuffle to the voting office to cast their ballot to the person the media deems appropriate. Just ask a person who participated in the last election if they even KNEW who Dennis Kucinich is. The fact of the matter is that too many people can't be bothered to even know the alternative.

Thoreau has this to say.
"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote."


Due to the nature of the voter, the politic and media of the day reflect what he or she wants (the voter). It becomes lowest common denominator and that is why the media seems exactly like a reality show.
THE DYSFUNCTION OF THE MACRO IS DUE TO THE DYSFUNCTION OF THE MICRO. 
IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE WORLD, SAVE YOURSELF.


If you stand for nothing you'll fall for anything - Malcom x