All year long we have been subjected to an unending parade of frivolous, meaningless nonsense masquerading as "issues" in the Presidential campaign. The mainstream media repetitively parrots every bit of gossip conjured up and bats it back and forth between the candidates, to get their "reaction" to it, and that of their supporters, then the opinions of analysts as to how the gossip or their reaction to it or their supporters reaction to it will affect the campaign. Why does this pass for news?
Perhaps this is to be expected of the same news channels that otherwise fill their airtime with the latest goings on of trashy bimbos in Hollywood, but often the more cerebral activist class gets drawn into discussing the same drivel. We should be propounding issues that matter.
Have you ever stopped to consider how some of the most mundane and boring policy changes might radically improve the world - and be enacted with a minimum of wailing and gnashing of teeth? (more...)