It's not what is being said in the media and talk shows

[RegieRocker]

that concerns me. It's the fact that it isn't rejected by the majority of people to cause them to fade away. Isn't that the real problem?

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Yes, in a word.

We get the kind of government we deserve. (Generally speaking, of course.)

If i understand correctly.... the % vote turnout in '08 dwarfed the % turnout in '10.

What we see ( and hear) is what we've got.

The dilemma is how to get people off their ..... ummm.... *couches* and involved continuously in the process.

[RegieRocker]

2. I feel it's deeper than that .

So many people have such a fictitious idea of the past. What crimes against humanity this country and it's people committed and the lies by our government they believed. That in order to fix the problem we must be willing to look in the attic and own up to it and detest it. Then and only then can people begin to heal.

[DailyGrind51]

3. Take away their laptops and televison sets so they take to the streets!

[Donnachaidh]

5. B of A and Capital One are doing that for us

I think we really need to start insisting that these media moguls present BOTH sides equally, and stop the glut of verbal diarrhea from the likes of Beck, Limbaugh, Boortz, etc from having free rein to propagandize.

[justiceischeap]

4. That's because the 18-24 crowd didn't vote in the midterm elections

I was in my late 20s voting at a midterm election and was interviewed. The reporter really didn't understand why someone "so young" would vote on issues that basically concerned senior citizens. I looked at the woman and said, "If I'm lucky, I'll be senior citizen someday too." I think I stunned her but I think a lot of 18-24 don't consider that what they sit out on now can and will effect them in the future, hence the miserable midterm election numbers.

[snot]

6. Yes and no. The real problem is that the media owners push their view regardless

and there's so little room left for any other view to be expressed -- esp. now that net neutrality is on the ropes.