[theoddz]

Originally Posted by Diva

I'm starting to think that some folks vote for the candidates who scrare them the most..............

Fear is the tool, I think.

Of course, the folks most susceptible to fear are the ignorant and uneducated. Fear is such an effective weapon and it's worked extremely well for the Republican party in the past years. It lied us into a war and just about brought down the entire world economy.

I'm going to post something here from the script of Michael Moore's movie, Sicko, because I think it what it says applies to everything here about how people vote.

(Moore) It seems it benefits the system if the average person is shackled with debt.

People in debt become hopeless,
and hopeless people don't vote.

They always say
everyone should vote,
but I think if the poor in Britain
or the United States voted for people
who represented their interests,it would be a real democratic revolution.

So they don't want it to happen. So keeping
people hopeless and pessimistic...

See, I think there are two ways
in which people are controlled.

First of all, frighten people,
and secondly, demoralize them.

An educated, healthy and confident
nation is harder to govern.

And I think there's an element
in the thinking of some people:

"We don't want people to be
educated, healthy and confident,
because they would get out of control."

The top 1 % of the world's population
own 80% of the world's wealth.

It's incredible that people put up with it,
but they're poor,they're demoralized, they're frightened.

And therefore, they think
perhaps the safest thing to do
is to take orders and hope for the best."

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....and that's all I'm going to say about that.

~Theo~