Are we that dumb?
I get a magazine from my employer, the USPS, and from my union, the NALC (national association of letter carriers). And both are trying to persuade me to vote for one person or the other. Am I a sheep? are we all sheep too dumb to listen to what we ourselves want? Do you really know so little or care so little to not know who you want running the country you live in? Is this country so stuck on listening to the news that we don’t even read between the lines and we just listen to everything media men and women tell us? If the people in this country don’t wise up then we’re doomed. Just doomed, we’ve got an arrogance that is pungent enough to sour milk in the far east. We may think we’re the best right now but look to history (yes that subject that you slept through in school) to see that the biggest empires ever are taken over and some completely disappear within a relatively short time. Have you lost your self esteem? do you need someone else to tell you that this person is better than the other?
This world is in an information age, everything you could ever care to know about anything worth knowing can be found on the internet so long as you know how to use the magic Google. Some people still don’t know how to use a computer… yeah, thats scary right? But it’s not that all of them are dumb (though some are) they just don’t care to learn and would rather have someone do it for them. just like researching presidential candidates.
But hey as long as we get a rebate check in the mail we forget that we’re being unfairly taxed, and will continue to be until we fix the federal budget to something more realistic (stop making up new money Mr. Bernanke! otherwise it might as well be monopoly money) . We’re going to be paying for the war in Iraq for years (or possibly decades if J.”Sharpshooter” McCain gets the office).
In closing, can we afford another president who likes war? who wants to put the middle and lower class down? who says it’s impossible to get out of a war that he walked right into casual as strolling through the park? we’ve lost more American men and women than we lost in the world trades. So instead of getting even it sounds like we played double or nothing, and lost.
Are we going to let this go on, are we that dumb?