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guthmund · 09-13-2004, 09:38 PM

I'm confused...when has the electorate ever had a backbone of well educated voters?

It's the same now as it was in the beginning. Promote yourself, insult your opponent, confuse the voters in any way you can. Rinse. Repeat.

There is a core of truly well educated voters out there who can see pass the past the partisan, no, the political line to find the nuggets of truth beneath the bullshit. The rest of us toe the party line and spout the party rhetoric and whatever's left just don't give a shit. Are they there? Absolutely, but they've never been a very big part of the electorate and never enough to really matter.

That out of my system...moving along. Everyone should vote. Stupid people have the right to spout their stupid opinions and vote for a litany of stupid reasons just like the rest of us idiots. I think it's a shame that we have to beg, plead, cajole, bribe and in some cases, actually lead divisions of our society to the polls. It may seem distasteful, but it is what it is. To disfranchise a portion of the electorate, regardless of reasons why, well....a pig is still a pig no matter how much lipstick you use.

Modern politicians understand the situation. They can't deny the right to vote to anyone without raising alarm (with good reason, I might add). However, this untapped pool of potential voters is impossible to resist and so they adjust their campaign strategies accordingly. Slap logos behind the podiums with catchy slogans; start spouting catchphrases and speaking in soundbytes; manipulate the media, medium, and language in every way, shape and form to support what they said (or didn't say).

That was long.

You can't stop people from voting; you can't keep groups (regardless of their political affiliation) from leading people to the polls. I don't think it screws up the electoral process as much as everyone might think because the idea of an well-educated electorate is myth along the lines of Nessie, aliens among us and the Illuminati. How can you skew an already skewed process?

09-13-2004, 09:38 PM	#11 (permalink)
guthmund big damn hero	I'm confused...when has the electorate ever had a backbone of well educated voters? It's the same now as it was in the beginning. Promote yourself, insult your opponent, confuse the voters in any way you can. Rinse. Repeat. There is a core of truly well educated voters out there who can see pass the past the partisan, no, the political line to find the nuggets of truth beneath the bullshit. The rest of us toe the party line and spout the party rhetoric and whatever's left just don't give a shit. Are they there? Absolutely, but they've never been a very big part of the electorate and never enough to really matter. That out of my system...moving along. Everyone should vote. Stupid people have the right to spout their stupid opinions and vote for a litany of stupid reasons just like the rest of us idiots. I think it's a shame that we have to beg, plead, cajole, bribe and in some cases, actually lead divisions of our society to the polls. It may seem distasteful, but it is what it is. To disfranchise a portion of the electorate, regardless of reasons why, well....a pig is still a pig no matter how much lipstick you use. Modern politicians understand the situation. They can't deny the right to vote to anyone without raising alarm (with good reason, I might add). However, this untapped pool of potential voters is impossible to resist and so they adjust their campaign strategies accordingly. Slap logos behind the podiums with catchy slogans; start spouting catchphrases and speaking in soundbytes; manipulate the media, medium, and language in every way, shape and form to support what they said (or didn't say). That was long. You can't stop people from voting; you can't keep groups (regardless of their political affiliation) from leading people to the polls. I don't think it screws up the electoral process as much as everyone might think because the idea of an well-educated electorate is myth along the lines of Nessie, aliens among us and the Illuminati. How can you skew an already skewed process? __________________ No signature. None. Seriously.