Watching this guy get haranged at an Obama rally, and compounding that with the numerous other videos of ignorant voters, I really have to come to a conclusion.

http://www.americannewsproject.com/node/164

My conclusion is a good 40% of voters have little intelligence to why they are standing up for something and voting.

But I already knew that.

What really gets me is the fact we want to blame the voters for voting in corrupt inept governments. That doesn't fly with me.

Why?

Because just like these gods among us, our politicians, our financial leaders, we are all going on the best available information.

We are all going on the best information available to us, made available to us, projected to us, imprinted upon us, and the best information we research ourselves.

Bernanke, Paulson, and especially Barney Frank and Alan Greenspan, they all use the excuse of working on the best, most likely best pleasing, information available to them.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and their crowd used what they believe, or at least use the excuse that they used the best information possible to go into Iraq.

The voters do the same too. In fact, they are even less fallible because they are so lowly. They're just voters. They don't start wars, they get sucked into the (let's face it) propaganda that war is justifiable even under flimsy pretexts.

Voter opinion is malleable. It can be conformed, it can be manipulated. So can even the best of us. Chalabi for the Iraq War. Deregulating corporations with the hopes they believe in altruism too.

We have been used on so many levels, all of us, we need to stop blaming those are who are less fallible for what is happening and pull our heads out of our asses.

People are pulling strings for their best interests, and for democracy to work, to work like we want it, we need to oversee these interests are for democracy, as a whole, the people, as a whole, and not the portion of cake with the most icing.

Reality is just an aggregate of everyone working towards their best interests. We've come far enough to think that democracy will work best towards the interests of all the people, not just those with the most power and guns at the time.

That is the theory, but we are not practicing it, because all we are getting is the best available information, which is not sufficient.

If you want to blame the voter, blame the education system for not stressing enough the importance of our fundamental rights in a democracy. If you want to blame Bush, blame the people who wanted Bush in Iraq. If you want to blame Barney Frank, blame him and the people who gave him that information. If you want to blame Greenspan for letting this Wall Street to happen, blame Ayn Rand and his obviously Objectivist leanings in letting corporations decide what to do with the people's money and interests.

I don't think you can blame one person for all this mess, as easy as it would be. You can only blame the Devil for a unfortunate reality. Or God.

In this reality it's easy to be evil, easy to be ruthless, callous and forgetful of the humanity involved in every decision you make, because all you have to do to be evil is just stop thinking of everybody else, and think only of yourself.