Let's start with this article, which I pulled off The Knight Shift. Aside from giving the movie Wall-E a very nice review, it touches on some of the severe downfalls I've noticed about our country lately. As any of you who know me know, I rarely am involved in politics. I was, up until about a year ago, quite apathetic about the whole shebang. Really, my view was the following: politicians are puppets to big corporations. One man cured that for me. Sadly, he is no longer in the running for president, so I'm back to my view that our presidential candidates are puppets, and, perhaps more importantly, idiots.
John McCain is an idiot. He took a swell trip to Latin America and vacationed with flip-flops and posed for pictures while the country he wants to lead struggled to pay for gasoline to get to work and back and dealt with the increasing rate of foreclosures and, what's more, the biggest June stock market free fall since The Great Depression. He can't even use a computer (no, seriously... he's admitted it), and he wants to lead this country? And people voted for him in the primaries. That goes beyond sad.
Barack Obama is, well, an idiot. He comes to us with these ideas of change, this audacious thing called "hope" and his very clever "Hope for America" campaign slogan... then as soon as he's the frontrunner, all that gets tossed to the wayside so he can jump to the middle and try to round up as many votes as he can on the platform of flip flop and so many empty (and ever-changing) promises. And people voted for him. Again, sad.
This country, its people, as it (and they) stands right now, are almost hopeless. Nevermind that a cartoon takes politics and the state of this country more seriously than either one of the current presidential candidates, nevermind that both of these folks are puppets who will say whatever they think you want to hear, nevermind that neither candidate has a single original idea that they would ever use to change this country. Let's think for just a second about how these two are the only options that we as voters have. And why is that? Oh yeah, you voted for them already.
Allow me a bit of outrage here for a moment. What is wrong with the people who voted for these two? Seriously, were you suckered by the sweet TV spots that promised so much? Were you astounded by the debates, where all the candidates bounced between catch phrases? How about all the dirt that was thrown around? Perhaps it was the overly-biased media. Do you watch MSNBC? Well, then vote for Obama. Fox News? McCain's your guy! CNN? We laugh at you privately.
When are people going to learn to think for themselves? You have rights in this country, believe it or not. You have the right to think for yourself and not let others make decisions for you. In fact, of all your rights, that is the most important one, because it protects all your other rights. Politics aside, we very much live in a culture where every person is told what to think, by schools, news, commercials, etc. We've become lazy, unwilling, and in some cases, unable, to think for ourselves, because we are so used to others thinking for us. How else did we elect Bush twice in a row?
Seriously folks, wake up and smell some freedom. Look past the superfluous rantings of the current candidates, and you will see... well, nothing really. Look past the bull and you see what you will get, nothing. You will see that they run for president not just to serve the people that elected them (hell, I doubt there's any of that motivating them). You will see two people who will, in the end, do nothing to help you, instead devoting their time to making more money for the people who already have it.
You know, there's a reason there's an ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. That reason is the people you elect to run this country.
Every day, I listen to people talk about how somebody has to do something to save this country. The thing is, though, that responsibility lies with us. Until we get up off our asses, start thinking for ourselves, then acting on these things, nothing is ever going to change. Not for the better, anyway.
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