My 2¢

I can honestly say that being a politician is clearly a job that any high school graduate is capable of. I say this because our country has had so many idiots holding positions in government. Of course there are the obvious dumb asses such as Bush and Palin whom I thought were the worse of the worst. I also believed that a person with a level of that stupidity would not be in office or be considered for position in the White House again. But clearly I was wrong.

There is a new candidate on the Republican side again who is just as stupid as the previously mentioned morons, Michele Bachmann. This lady believes that slavery was abolished by the founding fathers by the constitution. How could I even take a person seriously that has the history of the country she wants to lead so screwed up. I actually hated history class but even I, a person who never paid attention to history in high school, know that the constitution considered slaves property not people (3/5 law or something like that) and that the founding fathers themselves owned slaves.

There are many other quotes that Bachmann has said that prove her level of stupidity and ignorance, including the one in which she said not all cultures are equal, but that was the first one that I found. These examples of stupidity are easy to be found by typing her name into Google.

With that said I must now refer to the title of the post, “Dumb Politicians Come From Dumb Citizens.” It is people like myself and anyone reading this or the man down the street, basically anyone, that these peoples are given a chance to run for candidacy. We as a public are the reason why these idiotic leaders are elected, and we as a public need to change that. We refuse to do research and for the most part, don’t care. We vote not by politicians’ views but of our blind loyalties to parties. Furthermore, hate and selfishness cause us to vote for a candidate that won’t help the country as a whole but rather for one that has a small idea to help ourselves. In my opinion too many of us pay attention to the popular details of an election rather than the important ones such as the war that seems to have no end or the fact that as a country our education system is failing.

I challenge myself and my peers to truly pay attention to the problems that candidates for the 2012 election raise and make sure that they are important and for the overall well being of our country. As of now I know where my vote is going but I, like everyone else, must be open to the idea of another candidate.