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Edited on Wed Feb-28-07 09:18 AM by Atman
to pay close enough attention to what is happening. Not all of it is out of stupidity, most is from ignorance. Not malicious ignorance, just too much stuff going on for any normal person to process. Example; my wife is a very intelligent woman, has a Masters degree, and even watches the news. But she works hard all day, comes home and relaxes with something to read, or with some televised brain candy. But she can't keep up with all the machinations of the swift boaters, the Cabal News, the lying Cheney's, all of it. Too much information. And she's one of the BRIGHT ones. Walk down to a Wal Mart and spend five minutes listening to the conversations you hear among the customers (I'm not singling out WM for any reason other than they are such a huge resource for social anthropology). It is shocking. Americans, as a lot, just aren't that sharp, and are way too busy shopping and taking the kids to their soccer games to pay close enough attention to politics. As a result, they base their decisions upon the sound bites of idiots like Limbaugh and Hannity, or even from the manipulators on our side. We're not immune just because we're dems.
People should have to take a quiz before they're eligible to vote. 1) Name the President, VP, Speaker, in the correct order. 2) T/F: Al Gore said he invented the internet. 3) T/F: Iraq was responsible for the WTC attacks. 4) Do you watch Fox News?
Separate the wheat from the chaff. No voting if you can't name your own state representatives!
Short of this fantasy scenerio, term limits are the only way to clear out the cancer that has become our congress. All that said, I'm still not really in favor of limits. It just seems to go against the whole idea of representative democracy.
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