Bottle Blondes and Politics

Being a freshman in a major University is not that much different than being a freshman in High school. The inexperience is the same, the learning curve is the same, in fact, College life is not at all that different from being in High School. High School is often thought of as a place of preparation for college and beyond, and in the sense of society it serves its purpose. The cliques and interactions between them are the same.
Today I quietly observed a group of females seated across from me in our mess hall. The most discerning thing about them was their apparent lack of intellect. They were talking about current events, politics and things of the like. It was then I heard one of them mutter the following: "I'm going to vote for John Edwards because he is cute and I like his haircut," another one said they would vote for Clinton because she was the only female running. This seemingly meaningless and insignificant conversation takes on larger meaning to someone who believes that small groups can represent a greater society.
These young women represent a new class of voters who wield a disturbing amount of power. They don't look at foreign or economic policy or any number of more important characteristics, but make their decisions based upon things like haircuts and gender. This is not to say that women or only the young make decisions based on such superficial characteristics.
My mother told me of another example. An elderly woman in the hospital where she works said that she would vote for Clinton because she was elderly and wanted to see a woman president before she passed away. This is an easy argument for her to make because she will not have to live the repercussions of her eventual decision. The news talks of similar characteristics, they always talk of the black vote for Obama and the female vote for Clinton, or the evangelical vote for Huckabee, things like policy and goals have become an afterthought. I would argue that most U.S. voters including myself do not even know the policies of the people that they will be voting for in November.
With the discontent shared by most of the American people for their elected officials one must ask themselves how we came to the government that we currently have. The discontent is caused by the fact that most elected officials are completely out of touch with the world in which the proletariat live, but those officials are elected because of the general ignorance of the American public concerning economic, foreign and domestic policy.

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