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– Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell, in a debate at the Widener University Law School

via Doonesbury@Slate – Daily Dose.

Right? I mean, really. We live in a world of instant gratification. Everything is right at our fingertips. 200 channels to flip through from the comfort of our living room couch, each channel spoonfeeding you info, shaping your decisions. Someone with the gift of gab gets into your mind and you say “Yeah, that makes sense and fits with what i want to believe, so this guy is telling the truth!” It doesn’t matter that everyone on tv happens to be professional sales people, whether selling themselves for the fame, selling a product they want you to buy, or selling an idea they want you to buy into to further their agenda. The shows exist in the first place for one reason. To sell advertising and make money. Truth be damned. A show isn’t put on the air because someone thinks it will be interesting. It’s put on because someone thinks it it will sell advertising. So now we have channels that espouse only one viewpoint, because the powers that be know that everyone who shares that viewpoint will watch that channel. You can’t be a news channel and report both sides. You have to pick a side and stick with it and bash the other side to smithereens. This makes it easier for us to set our brains aside and let them do our thinking.

According to an article in Reuters that was quoting a Neilson fact sheet:

• We, as average Americans, watch an average of nearly 35 hours of TV each week. That’s almost equal to a full-time job. Add to that this frightening tidbit: In the average home, there are more television sets than people.

• About 35 percent of homes now have DVRs. Still, even within those homes, 85 percent of the prime-time viewing is done live.

• Television is still the biggest medium for advertisers, according for 57 percent of the $117 billion spent on advertising last year.

• And finally, here’s one for those of you who get fed up with the product/brand placement in The Biggest Loser or The Apprentice. According to Nielsen, “Television commercials which are paired with in-program product placement deliver higher brand recall (+18 pct), higher message recall (+21 pct) and higher likability (+17 pct).”

Radio is no different. That’s probably why I like listening to Howard Stern. At least he tells you it’s all bullshit and not to listen to him, do the research and make up your own mind. Plus every now and then a stripper rides the sybian machine, but that’s beside the point.

The internet is the same, except you have to work just slightly harder at getting the info. You work up a sweat to type, point and click so that Google can have answers to you in seconds. Then you have to filter out the millions of answers to get the one you want. After all of that you need a nap. The point is that we want our decisions made for us and be entertained so that we don’t have to be slapped in the face with the reality of how much the world sucks and how hard it will be to set it straight. Let other people do it. That’s why we pay athletes and actors more than we pay teachers. Teachers are no fun, they make us do homework and think.

Let’s talk about politics. I heard an interesting point of view the other day from none other than Jesse “The Body” Ventura. It’s something that I can’t help but agree with. It boils down to this: do away with the two party system. Actually do away with all parties. His reasoning, and I agree with this, is that Democrats vote for Democrats and Republicans vote for Republicans regardless if actually knowing anything about the candidate. If we abolish the parties, over time I believe people will really have to look into who it is for which they are casting there vote. I myself have been guilty of party bashing. Republicans, especially Tea Party Republicans, seem to have made it very easy to ridicule the candidates they have up for election in November. But let’s look at the overall picture. Our Democratic President and the Democratic controlled Congress made their first priority to be revamping health care. As an unemployed American I find it appalling that the first thing they did not look at was our failing economy and our high unemployment. I think health care needs reform but let’s look at it this way. If our president had forced everyone to go balls out on efforts to jumpstart the economy and getting people back to work, and the economic numbers were supporting those efforts, then people would’ve been more amenable to sitting down at the table and discussing healthcare. I don’t believe you can turn around eight years or more of stupidity in a year and a half, but you have to make an effort to turn the ship as fast as possible when you see that iceberg, not just let it coast right into the damn thing!

This leads me to the next section of my rant. I don’t really believe the the politicians of the two parties hate each other. I think they play us like WWE wrestling. They run each other into the dirt, then behind closed doors they laugh at the American people for being so gullible and buying into their bullshit. They make deals with each other to get their pet projects put through, burying the money in one obscure bill after another. Here is how I believe it should be. Politicians should have to sell their constituency on why they vote for every particular bill. If their constituency wants him or her to vote one way, and the senator or rep wants to vote another way, then they have to be detailed as to why, and not slide it by the people. And what the hell, let’s throw a three strike rule into effect here, too. If they vote against what the people want three times, then they can be replaced. Now, that would take some work on our part. We would have to dig in and look for the facts, not just believe what they tell us because “by gosh, I’m a democrat and so is he and that’s good enough for me!” Or “HannityBeckLimbaughOReilly said it on his show so it must be true! He wouldn’t lie just to get ratings!” We have to ask the right questions, and we have to have an idea of what the answers should be ahead of time. Research it. Look it up. Cut through the bullshit.

When it comes down to it, as a registered democrat Icould give a rats ass what party you belong to if you are running for office. If you have a plan let’s hear it. Doing nothing but running your opponent down tells us nothing about what YOU would do. Got a plan? Let’s here it! Explain in detail where you would make the cuts, and then explain how you pay for what’s left. Don’t just throw the constitution at me. It’s more tan 200 years later, a few things might have changed in our country since then. Explain how you would stimulate business enough so that the hiring would begin again. If you were a successful business person to begin with, then you probably know that people want solutions, not problems, and right now both sides are just pointing out the other sides problems. Where are the solutions.

I’ve ranted enough, perhaps incoherently. G’night…

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