Exactly. I would love to vote for a third party candidate without the country going to pot because of the lesser of the two powerful evils (almost typed Elvis) lost...
Really, it is the money and the lobbyists that cause the problems even in the primaries. Our society is no longer a democratic one, but a captitalistic one. So many people are so lost in their struggle to survive, and so dumbed down by everything from our school system to the trashy food we eat that they can't think past what the media tells us about the candidates. And who controls the media? The people with the most money.
That'd be why I've come to trust the BBC more than CNN or Faux News when it comes to our own national news. It's pathetic that we need to go underground just to get any kind of straight information.
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Date: 2008-03-31 12:35 am (UTC)Really, it is the money and the lobbyists that cause the problems even in the primaries. Our society is no longer a democratic one, but a captitalistic one. So many people are so lost in their struggle to survive, and so dumbed down by everything from our school system to the trashy food we eat that they can't think past what the media tells us about the candidates. And who controls the media? The people with the most money.
That'd be why I've come to trust the BBC more than CNN or Faux News when it comes to our own national news. It's pathetic that we need to go underground just to get any kind of straight information.
Umm...you can have your soapbox back, now. ;)