Down in Florida, the showpiece of the democracy experiment, The Peninsula Of Shame, they’ve elected a known criminal to the position of governor. The Alzheimer’s State; home of electoral buffoonery. You have to laugh…
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These elections were a mess.
I don’t really want to get into it, but just a quick comment, if I may…
The problem with voting in this country is that issues are not successfully explainable in one sentence, and therefore the average American cannot understand what is at stake. Voter decisions and choosings-of-sides are not generally intellectual in nature; they are emotional decisions. I’ll discuss that concept in a future post, but that’s exactly where that old saying comes from: “Never argue politics or religion.”
Meanwhile, silly catchphrases and manufactured hysteria (and don’t forget the lies) created a mood in the country that sucked in half the voters, and next thing you know, they’d been manipulated into voting against their own best interests. Americans don’t vote on the issues. They’ll say they do, because they think they do, but nobody (including me) has the time or probably the ability to research national issues to the point of true understanding. It’s just too big a job. But trusting the “information” you get at the gas station or local bar is absurd. It’s lazy and irresponsible. Now we’ve got the “death panel” concept (a complete fabrication) and other deliberate misinterpretations to live with the rest of our lives, instantly added to the political lexicon, tributes to lying and nasty tricks. And along with the rest of the crap that flourished in the election’s closing weeks, we’ve got mountains of proof of how cynically the voters were used.
It’s just so disappointing.
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