I don't understand the "swing voter"... how can you live in a "democracy" and not know what candidate you want to vote for only to be swayed at the last minute by some bogus piece of information. I understand the idea that all of the candidates are guilty criminals so why bother voting in the first place, or that the person who shares the closest ideals to yourself never got a chance to get on the ticket. The American Ron Paul fits that ticket... i can understand the idea that his policies could strike a chord with people, which is probably why he never got a chance and was shut down by his party every time his star was rising... after all people get weird when they know they are guilty, and if a guy says he will go after the guilty, you can understand.
But if you are going to vote and take you place at the mirage of a table of democracy, how can you not know which way you go. Do these people take no notice of history, or is history just one of those boring subjects that gets in the way of "trending" topics.
Isn't the idea that you live in a country and you have a voice in which direction the country will take, but you don't really know what that is? Kind of like me in a restaurant... I never know what i want to order, and when i do i am usually haunted with regret... well that's why i learned to cook, so i can take matters into my own hands. But the Government is different.. people need to be gonged out of power for the greater good, usually a choice of lesser evils i would say... it's just the way it goes.
How can you expect a government to serve you best when you are uncertain who it is you want to govern you, and can be swayed to go either way on some last minute news story published by some global conglomerate... or even worse be swayed by some ideals of a church that takes your money and tells you what to think?
Should there be an intelligence test to verify your voting eligibility? Of course not, it would just become corrupted savagely... the test would be slanted to weed out people who are not going to vote for the side that the people who made the test want to become elected.
One of the things about moral character that we surprisingly gravitate to in our greatly immoral society that always cracks me up. Bill Clinton was amoral because he had an affair and lied about it, but he left the country in great shape. George Bush was moral because he was a born again Christian, but he lied to take the country to war and left the country teetering in bankruptcy. Since we live in a me me me society where everybody is worried about their own shit first, what's with this moral shit?
Why not elect the person who can steer the country in the best direction? What's with this squeaky clean image bull shit? A good politician can shake your hand and stab you in the back in the same motion, and then perhaps refer you to a drug company that can prescribe you something for your bizarre and unexplained back pain. How can you pretend by casting your vote, to be a participant in democracy, and not know what you stand for?
I guess it's money, and advertising... you need to fool chuckelheads into thinking you are on their side and you need a lot of money to do that... fear people into thinking illogically and against their ideals.
People are against health care, until they get sick... I'll never understand why you could be against health care but for war, but that's just me, and it's a free country, so if you are for war and against health care then you should know who you stand with just the same, and you shouldn't need a commercial to change your mind. If you are for proper scientific study and then basing policy on the results, then you should know that, and if you are in to classifying scientific study as an enemy to policy (less it be the physics of building war machines), and using religion and race and differences to drive wedges between people, then you should know that too. I'm not saying one is right or wrong, although i have my opinions... it's just that you should know solidly what you believe in when you cast your vote and not be "swung" by some last minute revelation that may or may not be true.
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it." ~Mark Twain
But if you are going to vote and take you place at the mirage of a table of democracy, how can you not know which way you go. Do these people take no notice of history, or is history just one of those boring subjects that gets in the way of "trending" topics.
Isn't the idea that you live in a country and you have a voice in which direction the country will take, but you don't really know what that is? Kind of like me in a restaurant... I never know what i want to order, and when i do i am usually haunted with regret... well that's why i learned to cook, so i can take matters into my own hands. But the Government is different.. people need to be gonged out of power for the greater good, usually a choice of lesser evils i would say... it's just the way it goes.
How can you expect a government to serve you best when you are uncertain who it is you want to govern you, and can be swayed to go either way on some last minute news story published by some global conglomerate... or even worse be swayed by some ideals of a church that takes your money and tells you what to think?
Should there be an intelligence test to verify your voting eligibility? Of course not, it would just become corrupted savagely... the test would be slanted to weed out people who are not going to vote for the side that the people who made the test want to become elected.
One of the things about moral character that we surprisingly gravitate to in our greatly immoral society that always cracks me up. Bill Clinton was amoral because he had an affair and lied about it, but he left the country in great shape. George Bush was moral because he was a born again Christian, but he lied to take the country to war and left the country teetering in bankruptcy. Since we live in a me me me society where everybody is worried about their own shit first, what's with this moral shit?
Why not elect the person who can steer the country in the best direction? What's with this squeaky clean image bull shit? A good politician can shake your hand and stab you in the back in the same motion, and then perhaps refer you to a drug company that can prescribe you something for your bizarre and unexplained back pain. How can you pretend by casting your vote, to be a participant in democracy, and not know what you stand for?
I guess it's money, and advertising... you need to fool chuckelheads into thinking you are on their side and you need a lot of money to do that... fear people into thinking illogically and against their ideals.
People are against health care, until they get sick... I'll never understand why you could be against health care but for war, but that's just me, and it's a free country, so if you are for war and against health care then you should know who you stand with just the same, and you shouldn't need a commercial to change your mind. If you are for proper scientific study and then basing policy on the results, then you should know that, and if you are in to classifying scientific study as an enemy to policy (less it be the physics of building war machines), and using religion and race and differences to drive wedges between people, then you should know that too. I'm not saying one is right or wrong, although i have my opinions... it's just that you should know solidly what you believe in when you cast your vote and not be "swung" by some last minute revelation that may or may not be true.
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it." ~Mark Twain
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