While I was in high school, there was one kid in particular in all of my history and economics classes that adhered so ridiculously to right-wing propaganda that I could barely even consider him worth debating. Then a few years later during college, a tragedy struck the nation that killed off the hearts and minds of so many Americans that Fox News was able to take its shitty influence to entirely new levels, and suddenly the same conversations I tried to avoid with him were being had left and right everywhere between everyone who had a political opinion.
It seems that we're engaged in a war for the very minds of our populace as we race to the bottom of our intellectual gene pool. Now I'm not the most pointed intellect, but I know enough to tell when a scam is in action, and it centers largely on watching the actions rather than the words of our elected political sociopaths. 2012 is an election year after all and it is staggering to watch the kinds of candidates that idiocy brings forth to represent itself, all being funnelled in their opinions by who has the biggest checkbook to influence them.
We're not being offered a choice between good or evil. We're choosing between compromise or idiocy.
And like that substandard fellow in high school, I don't quite know yet whether it's best to counter the stupidity, or ignore it. There is only so much time to invest in making a point and trying to shout over a bullhorn is rather tiresome.
