the 2008 election
October 5th, 2008 by shinzu
This year will probably be one of the most important elections you will ever vote for in your lifetime. Never have so many events relevant to our lives converged in one single point of time. A war, an economic crisis, global warming, terrorism, gay rights, etc.
I usually read about these political events with a strong degree of fascination, but I am i impelled this late night to write something about the election.
To me, the answer on which candidate to vote for is so obvious. To put it shortly, Republican policies of the past 8 years was plenty of time to create this mess, so why get another Republican in office.
The biggest messed up thing about our political process right now isn’t the candidates themselves, but its.. the people.
Us.
Only a small minority (you can call them ‘elitest’ or whatever) actually think about the candidates positions and do research on their policies, and to see if it matches their values. I consider these people to live in the intellectual centers, and there are pockets of them all over the us.
But the thing is SOOOO many people out there don’t really care about educating themselves on the issues. They instead let media tell them what is going on, and never bother to find the truth for themselves. And you know what this does… this lets both candidates spit shits of rhetoric out to us.. the people.
The reason the candidates do this, is simply that they can get away with it. They can get away with not answering questions directly, and not talking about policy. I mean, in the most recent Palin-Biden debate, Palin was saying that she can answer the question on how she wants to.
Then whats the fucking point of the debate if candidates like this are dodging the issues and not answering questions.
American people. Wake up. You cannot allow our candidates to spit out nonsense during such an important election. You have to get them to talk about, how are we going to fix this economic, what is going to be our foreign policy doctrine, how do we address global warming?
This is not elitism. This is plain and simple common sense. We need to be having this intellectual discussions because these are complicated problems. One liners or soundbites isn’t going to solve these problems.
The ultimate irony of all of this is as much as I disagree with our candidates spewing nonsense, a lot of it is geared towards the naive Americans we have, because they constitute a large portion of this nation.
sigh.