I'm fed up.

[pdxmom]

I'm fed up with the media, who have become so totally cowed by the administration and their big-corporation masters that they no longer do their job. Who report to the least common denominator out there and have forgotten that hold a sacred Constitutional position that they now refuse to address.

I'm fed up with the politicians, who are more concerned with party, power and personal profit than with the people they are supposed to represent. They are abdicating their responsibility and making a mockery of the Constitution they swore to uphold. The dishonesty is more than I can stand.

But what I'm most fed up with are the citizens of this country who are allowing these other two groups to get away with this. They would rather spend an hour watching "American Idol" or the latest non-news on a missing white girl than to educate themselves about what is really going on around them. They are willing to be spoon-fed by talk radio and refuse to ever hear another view or formulate an original thought. They are so wrapped in chasing the almighty dollar and their own self-absorbed interests that they allow our rights - those rights that were fought for and thought out and used to be a shining light in the world - to be yanked out from underneath us. They don't realize that voting is something that is privilege to be exercised, not a chore to maybe be accomplished if they can fit it in. It's those citizens out there who are intellectually dishonest, hypocritical, uninformed or just plain lazy that I feel are the crux of the problems in this country and I'm fed up with them.

[MichiganVote]

1. Well at least you're not lonely

[Cleita]

2. I find looking for news on the internet is more satisfying to me.

I can read what I am interested in and not forced to know more about Aruba than I care to know. Just turn off those news channels, except CSPAN, and clear your mind of all the propaganda garbage.

[pdxmom]

3. I prefer the Internet as well. What bothers me is that the vast

majority of the population out there doesn't even bother to try to educate themselves, either through the Internet or otherwise.

I know I'm preaching to the choir around here, but I've finally reached the end of my rope with the people I come in contact with on a daily basis. If they've read ANYTHING or watched something deeper than "Desperate Housewives", I've started to be happy about it. How sad is that?

[bdamomma]

6. I get my news from the internet

AAR, Keith Olberman, Bill Maher,and being around people like you.

[fed-up]

4. ME TWO- :) n/t

[Ksec]

5. I think you are correct

I wonder what its going to take to wake these people up?

Sadly, a catasrophe of Biblical proportions may be the only way.

[jerry611]

7. As Winston Churchill once said...

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

It wasn't a scientific poll, but I remember several years ago David Letterman did a show where he sent someone on the street with a picture of Dick Cheney and they asked random people on the street if they knew who that man was. Probably 4 out of 5 people had absolutely no idea who he was.

I also remember a poll where 70% of Americans could not locate Iraq on a globe. 75% of High School seniors could not accurately describe what the 1st amendment means. 45% of college students did not know the two sides of the American Civil War (Russia and Mexico were popular answers.)

Don't underestimate the stupidity of this nation.

[OneBlueSky]

8. don't watch . . .

I haven't watched a network or cable newscast for about four years . . . nor have I tuned in to a single talking head . . . whenever I chance upon either while surfing, it's an automatic "auto-click" . . .

I'm a better person for it . . . and certainly more fully and accurately informed about national and world events than those who get their "news" from traditional sources . . .