There are many mad voters in the US which I define as anyone who voted for Obama twice. But this new blog by Roger Simon, Diary of a Mad Voter, is focused on the next presidential election, which doesn’t happen until November 2016. We will be voting before that, but there is not the same kind of obsessive interest this far out. But we are blessed with a Parliamentary system and do not elect a president.

The post I opened when I got there was by Richard Dreyfuss, yes THAT Richard Dreyfuss. It is about Election Coming: Nobody Knows Anything. Translation, the American voter is so dumbed down by the education system that they are largely too poorly informed to vote in any sensible way.

Our values are not transmitted genetically; they must be taught. They’re not. We’re asked to make choices between political parties that have ceased all rational intentions to communicate their stand on issues with any clarity. We live in an hypnotic trance of inaction because we aren’t taught how to run the nation, that we as a people are the highest sovereign power, that we can and should hold villains accountable.

Voting doesn’t make you a better citizen, comprehending the issues makes you better. Voting without that makes us all suckers.

With Kindergarten versions of fairness now the standard, is it any wonder. Anyway, it is a blogsite you might wish to visit if viewing the American election is of any interest to you.

BTW this was picked up at Powerline. where it is written, “Roger says, that the 2016 election is “THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER!” It’s not. We already had that one in 2012. The next one is just a salvage operation, but repair, I think, is impossible.