The Idiot Lobby is commandeering Washington DC, and steering it towards OBLIVION!

People (ie, liberals) keep worrying about the conservatives and how they will destroy the country and blah blah blah. The democrats are SO VERY LOUD, but incredibly incapable of leveraging that into a solid win. Why? I just think people are getting incredibly unprincipled and, frankly, somewhat stupid. I think there are a lot of loud democrats that might not even vote. Maybe they aren’t even registered…. A lot of talk, ideas, complaints… with little to no action. While Nixon’s silent majority sits back and steals the election, quietly, time and time again, the liberals are blogging with multiple question marks

So.. why is it?  Why is this solid “silent majority” always haunting the liberal camp? (I love that term because I think of a whole bunch of sociology and humanities professors in tents camping and drinking bad beer)

The majority of this majority aren’t the seasoned, well learned, incredibly well spoken conservatives that we respect and listen to. These are the conservatives by default.  These are people possibly not even political. The Heartland. The people of “values”. These people are the ones that are by default conservatives because they desire status quo, basically to avoid having to inject any real culture or diversity into their lives.

The heartland, frankly, is a problem. I am not talking about the good people of the literal, geographic, heartland. I am talking about the cynical take politics and the press take, and the people they are *REALLY* talking about when they use that word.

I think it is time as a nation to recognize that we will keep producing slobbering, gun toting, xenophobic racists and prejudicial people because as long as the intelligentsia is being outbred by stupid people…..  We will have a group of people with a tremendous amount of ethereal clout and sway in the government.  These people will keep growing in numbers, and we will walk down a path not unlike Judge’s “Idiocracy”.

People will skew further afield among radically nationalistic and paranoid beliefs because we will lack the critical thought necessary to interpret our surroundings. Scared of different people or ideas, these people panic and react by getting discriminatory ballot measures into the election, for when their core belief systems are challenged. Always for state’s rights and less government, unless it affects them. Then it works slightly differently.

Anyhoo… this is my ramble about thoughts, politics, and why this system will become more flawed, I guess.

Hell, I know people are always talking about getting more people to vote, but do we really want more unintelligent, uninformed voters out there… voting based on what sound bite they saw, or how good the candidate looked on a magazine cover?

In the future, everyone will be part of the “heartland” that decides the election every year. The sad, honest aspect that the news never tells you is that “the heartland” means “redneck”.  I don’t want to make broad statements about anyone, and I am not talking about the lovely people from all over.  I am simply talking about these “heartland” voters the press refers too, and I think it is a thinly veiled guise.  The country is getting dumber.  Period.  It is frightening, it is obvious, and it is so bafflingly scary that no one seems to want to deal with it.  So we keep walking down the staircase.  It is a long staircase, and oblivion is a long way off.  But it seems ignorant to just ignore this issue.  Just because it will take a long time to get to oblivion doesn’t mean I want to keep walking without trying something.  Anyways these stairs are a bitch…..  what a worthless ramble.

Democrats will always be louder than they are driven. Conservatives will always be morally devisive with their politics. In the end, this system is going to fall apart because it relies on informed, intelligent people to take care of the democracy…

With media becoming more corporate and bottom line oriented to appease the consumers of their stock, rather than the eyes consuming the end product, it is nearly impossible to be properly, fairly informed… and people’s desires to be so informed are waning in the onslaught of focus on celebrity gossip and technological consumerism.

Democracy needs an intelligent, informed voter.

The United States is turning into a country with voters who could not possibly be one of those things… let alone two.  The moral of this story… please.. all you smart people?  Get hooked up all romantic like and start making babies now.  PLEASE… now.