So true!!! The founding fathers would be outraged at how politics have been taken over by special interests, money for advertising, and a disinterested and non-voting population. They never considered how powerful advertising would become as an influence in elections that require critical thinking versus uneducated, media influenced, brainwashing. After giving their lives for the revolution, they never thought that so many people would not exercise the right to vote that they fought for. They never considered how big money could dupe people into thinking that their vote didn't matter. They would be shocked and sickened by seeing what our electorial system has evolved into... a battle between media spin artists where whoever has the biggest advertising budget wins!!! We have come so far from the dream of our forefathers that I know it would sicken them to see the political operations of today, a day when a man of below average intellegence could manipulate the world just because of his daddy's connections.
