Reply #14: Thank you, good post.

[bklyncowgirl]

Also a good point about low information voters. Many people are just too busy with thier own lives to keep up with the news.

Here's an example. My daughter works for a successful horse trainer and riding instructor. One day her boss was outraged about the cost of the corn oil that she puts in her horse's feed. My daughter told her about how much of that crop was now being used to produce ethanol and that, along with rising fuel prices, is why it costs more for her gallon of store brand corn oil. Apparently the woman had never heard that before.

This is an intelligent woman who is successful in her field. She devotes long hours to her business. She goes home, she's tired. I don't know whether having an 19 year old stall mucker lecture her on corn oil prices has shamed her into paying more attention to the larger world around her. Hopefully, like more and more people, she's beginning to realize that larger forces are at work that could disrupt her personal world.