I think most of the high minded ‘independent thinkers’ are dupes.

‘Larvals do not like to receive information unless the facts fit into their 3rd Circuit reality net and immediately reward their emotional status.’
http://deoxy.org/8_larvals.htm

As for repeatedly banging one’s skull against a brick wall I can’t help agreeing with George Carlin – ‘Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.’

Whether one makes a decision as to who to vote for by an immediate emotive reaction, or by long drawn out itellectual reasoning seems almost irrelevant when you don’t know whether the information the politicians give, and the promises they make are lies.

I agree with you 100% that the emphasis should be for people to become more familiar with the issues, rather than an shallow sentiment that everyone should just vote (even if they are profoundly unaware of the issues).

But hamming it up on RAW, SNL, or The Daily Show is no big deal, really.

I’m sorry, but you seem to be a snob.
Everybody has an equally valid point of view, to say that someone is too stupid to vote simply shows what a snob you are.
‘A snob, guilty of snobbery, is a person who adopts the worldview that some people are inherently inferior to him/her for any one of a variety of reasons including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, etc. Often, the form of snobbery reflects the offending individual’s socio-economic background.’

How can someone who is so obviously a liar and a cheat still be considered as a president?

How bad can things get before they start to get better, or is it an ever downward spiral?

Is there any hope?

I don’t think Man is inherently bad, so why do we make such bad choices in leadership?

It seems to me the only hope is for us to be able to work together as a whole, somehow. Some people believe at some point we may all be able to connect to a collective consciousness.

Perhaps it is unwise to hope for something that is far fetched to say the least. Yet looking at the state of the world, the corrupt leaders, the nuclear missiles pointed at each other, Nature polluted, species extinct, our children drugged, people starving, it seems so sad, and I feel complicit in it.

So in my mind I’d rather work torward some hopeful solution, or at least hope that the after life, if there is one, is better than this.