I'm afraid my inner totalitarian is being brought out

[George_Bonanza]

The number of Americans willing to forgive eight years of ineptitude, and willing to overlook countless gaffes and lies by the McCain campaign just because of "cultural" issues makes me sincerely wish to take away the voting rights of those that uphold the idiocracy and mediocracy in America. As a liberal, such an idea disgusts me, but seeing such incongruous ideas such as "McCain is still honourable" and "Obama is an extremist Muslim" makes me hate democracy.

[billyoc]

1. I know! The American electorate makes Stalinist Vanguardism look good!

:rofl:

[Kutjara]

2. Unfortunately, democracy only works...

...with an intelligent and informed electorate who understand their own best interests. Many of the arguments against universal suffrage in the past were based on the fear that the "ignorant" (for which read the landless, the peasantry, blacks, women and any other group that was perceived as a threat to entrenched power) would make a mockery of the whole system.

Well, the system has certainly become a joke, but not because of any of the groups I mentioned above. No, the single biggest threat to democracy in the modern world is "American Idolatry," which I define as the practice of stupid people voting stupidly, based on some personalized, subjective view of what "rocks" and what "sucks," distilled from unquestioning acceptance of media messages and "brand values."

Let lemmings set up a democracy, and they'll vote to run off the nearest cliff.