While I understand the need to participate in the political system in order to make changes, traditional participation (voting) is becoming more and more futile. If you're sent to the circus to vote, you're only given the choice between a monkey and a dancing bear.
The whole "lesser of two evils" cliché that everyone gives when they walk away from the ballot? Yeah, the gap that determines the lesser evil is quickly closing due to the media's and the public's desire to turn politics into a childish game involving name-calling taunts that aren't intended to address underlying substantive issues. Instead, the majority seems content with seeking to elicit emotional responses which further fail to address anything substantive. The public is eating it up, and the politicians are responding accordingly.
As a whole, our nation's citizens have turned into the stereotypical mob in South Park that will "rabble, rabble" at whatever ludicrous or asinine statements that are made. Instead of attempting to intelligently address an argument that is put forth, half of the masses giggle like school children when the advocate is referred to as a slut, while the other half emotionally responds with their angry rabble-rousing. No one wants to actually address the underlying issue in an explanatory manner, but instead, they want to cheer/whine about irrelevant name-calling that should have no place in serious political discourse.
It's not that I'm suggesting that the citizens should just throw their hands up in the air and do nothing in an apathetic manner; it's merely recognition that the typical form of participation (voting) is becoming more and more useless as time goes on, because "we" as a people are doing nothing but allowing absolute morons to become the voice of America.
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