First...for the umpteenth time America is NOT a Democracy, it never has been and untill we trash the Constitution it never will be, although I will allow that the presidential election is a SOMEWHAT democratic process.
But to fix the problem I think we have to get rid of the two party system for one, and as someone else pointed out we have to get rid of paid political ads.
But the deeper problem comes in educating the voters, back when there was a concept in the media called equal time, that has pretty much been abandoned. I think there is a responsibility for the major networks to provide free, equal time to candidates, they are after all "public airwaves"
I don't know but maybe proportional representation is an answer, I haven't given that a lot of thought but I know it works elsewhere.
There is also an argument that people on the public dole lose the right to vote, I tend to disagree with that one even though it IS evident that people trade votes for handouts.
As my friend Tim Walker wrote today on
MikeSouth.Com It is becoming increasingly difficult to determine where the truth is even in major news stories, it seems everyone is skeptical, and rightly so, the media has become the tool of the politicians to scare us into relinquishing our Constitutional rights. It's a complex problem with no easy answer...but it does need to be fixed. thats my
